Billy Copley at Edward Thorp Gallery

If a hard-edged abstract painting liberated itself from the stretcher and tottered off, it might look something like Billy Copley’s acrylic on paper sculpture, which appears to be blowing streamers for the new year. (On view at Edward Thorp Gallery in Chelsea through Jan 27th).

Billy Copley, The Rosewater Dish, acrylic and prepared paper on formed paper, 30 ½h x 36w x 23d inches, 2017.