‘Forest’s Edge’
Team
527 West 26th Street, Chelsea
Through June 18

In another context, you could mistake Benjamin Butler’s abstracted landscapes for banal decorative paintings made for furniture showrooms or dentists’ offices. In a Chelsea gallery, they bloom like hot house flowers. Made with a brusquely sensuous touch, each depicts a few slender, mostly leafless trees with the spaces between filled in with hyper-energetic patterns: short bands of color, woozy concentric stripes or fields of small bricklike brush marks. Read More