Painting Impossible @ Life on Mars

Arnold Mesches, Coming Attractions 5, 66 x 50 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2006 (c
Arnold Mesches, Coming Attractions 5, 66 x 50 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2006 (courtesy of the artist and Life on Mars Gallery)

Etty Yaniv reviews the exhibition Painting Impossible at Life on Mars, Bushwick. The show features works by Todd Bienvenu, Katherine Bradford, Jim Herbert, Arnold Mesches, and Karen Schwartz.

Yaniv writes "Despite the wide diversity in their work, all five artists integrate figure and gesture with abstraction to generate a charged narrative, draw on the way they experience life, and, most importantly, share a fearless approach to process and material. While their work can include irony or humor, [gallery owner Michael] David emphasizes that 'there is absolutely nothing ironic or casual about their immersion in the act of painting.' "