Joe Walentini reviews the exhibition Pat Passlof on view at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, on view through December 23, 2011.

Walentini remarks: "The place to begin with this exhibition is witnessing the absolute, unfettered joy evident in the paint handling. The paintings begin life intuitively loose, eventually find their way to defining the forms and finally, their various resolutions… an eloquent balance is established between the emotion of the paint and texture – and – a compositional structure obliquely referencing a grid."