Andrew Kuo at Marlborough Gallery

Andrew Kuo makes geometric abstraction emote in a series of paintings that map his feelings and experiences as blocks of color.  This painting documents the breakup of a seven year relationship; the key to the large yellow patch reads ‘Everything has changed! (Except everything actually worth changing.)” It’s bookmatched with the thought in grey, “All I want is to be like how I was before.”  (At Chelsea’s Marlborough Gallery through May 4th).  

Andrew Kuo, I Forget (on 12/12/12), acrylic and carbon transfer on panel and laminated paper, 2012.

Andrew Kuo in ‘In Plain Sight’ at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Andrew Kuo, 'Tallboy,' acrylic on linen, 2012.
Andrew Kuo, ‘Tallboy,’ acrylic on linen, 2012.

Linsanity goes on hiatus in Andrew Kuo’s tiny painting of Houston Rockets star Jeremy Lin as he is chastised by an angry basketball.  Floating in a tank a la Jeff Koon’s basketballs in his 1985 ‘Equilibrium’ series, the ball becomes the object of our attention, forcing a downcast Lin into the backseat.  The vicissitudes of stardom never looked so cute. (‘Tallboy’ is in the group exhibition ‘In Plain Sight’ at Chelsea’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash through August 17th).