Palette

Greenberg Van Doren
730 Fifth Avenue, near 57th Street
Through Aug. 18

Color is its gorgeous, malleable self in this show of work by six painters and one chromatically inclined sculptor: variously dark, glowing, livid, naturalistic and ersatz. The mood is vaguely sinister in the first room, with Naomi Fisher’s fluorescent pink and orange renderings of demonic young women; Andrea Hanak’s little paintings of flowers apparently vandalized with smears of brown and black; and Martin McMurray’s even smaller woodland scenes, in brown and red, of an antic if dangerous violent hunting trip. Read More