For energy and pleasure, few current Tribeca exhibitions can best Meg Lipke’s exhibition of fiber-stuffed shaped paintings at Broadway Gallery. In her works’ vibrant color and inventive form, Lipke expresses kinship to her artistic forebears, pointing out Howardena Pindell’s late ‘60s soft grid composed of rolled up canvas segments, Ree Morton’s inventive combination of painting and objects and Elizabeth Murray’s shaped canvases as influences. Here, the huge 8’ x 16’ ‘Slanting Grid’ could easily dominate the gallery but acts more subtly, its pastel tones and mostly soft forms drawing in visitors while three triangles at bottom and its insistent rightward lean direct attention away. (On view in Tribeca through Dec 13th).
