Brian Fee reviews the exhibition Painting Advanced at Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, on view through April 20, 2013. The show features paintings by Andrea Belag, Jim Lee, Rachel Malin, Andrew Spence, and Gary Stephan.

The gallery press explains that the exhibition "addresses the ever-expanding range of complexity in recent abstract painting… [and seeks] to uncover the energies that painting still possesses." Fee concurs, noting that "the five assembled artists… are continually reworking the language of abstract painting, even within their own evolving styles."