Piri Halasz reviews Larry Poons—Radical Surface: 1985—1989 at Loretta Howard Gallery (through December 23, 2010) for Artcritical.  Halasz discusses the environment Poons created while making the paintings "The paintings … were made in an old barn in upstate New York. They started out as an environment, with a long swathe of canvas wrapped around so as to form an enormous cocoon or grotto, within which the artist worked by electric light. "