Best Monochrome Exhibition

"N," Lindsy Davis

While there were flashes of muted color throughout the exhibition, Lindsy Davis’ tough, brave and smart exhibit Negative Space: The Perception of Depth at The Red Arrow Gallery was a mostly black-and-white affair. That said, slight shades of color sometimes made all the difference in this show of big canvases and small works on paper that examined how the eye perceives depth on the surface of a painting, and how that perception affects the viewer’s understanding of the relationships between subject and ground. The show wrapped op-art illusions in expressionistic mark-making and raw gestures, all rendered with bare-bones materials like handmade paper, gesso and charcoal that Davis burned herself. JOE NOLAN

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