Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to announce "Personal Geometry", on view January 8th through February 7th, 2009.

“Personal Geometry” presents a broad swath of artists who, while dedicated to the language of geometric abstraction, have resolutely denied its impersonal constraints. Using color, texture, and myriad geometric structures, these artists forgo mathematical precision in favor of more layered meaning, and relate the works as much to landscape, the body, and experience as to their abstract core.

Artists to be included in the show are Eve Aschheim, Willard Boepple, Ralston Crawford, Howard Daum, Richard Diebenkorn, Burgoyne Diller, Garth Evans, Andrew Forge, Sidney Geist, Al Held, Sharon Horvath, Alfred Jensen, Tine Lundsfryd, Fred McCarthy, Jan Müller, Louise Nevelson, Paul Resika, Thornton Willis and Helen Miranda Wilson.

Some, such as Held and Lundsfryd, use geometry to provide a compositional framework but imbue simple shapes with unexpected sensuality. Thus Held’s squares and triangles are edged with soft, brushy strokes, while Lundsfryd’s original organizing grid is riddled with playful tandems and imprecisions. And In Jensen’s hands, the rubric of the checkerboard is countered by plastic brushstrokes and baroque ornamentation.

Müller and Wilson, two painters whose work has been split between abstraction and representation, provide adept examples of paintings composed from the arrangement of humble squares, but which function foremost as matrices for the study of color relationships and personal moods.

Also of note are wall sculptures by Boepple, Evans, Geist and Nevelson.