Bright geometry fills the stretch of bending white walls at Storefront, a small gallery in Bushwick that opened this year. The show, On Display, features the works of Sharon Butler, Cathy Nan Quinlan, and Joy Curtis.
 
The works are a funny match. While in some ways the trio seems like they were born for each other, the tasteful arrangement of the works masks how different they actually are.
 
Sharon Butler’s paintings hold on to Modernist traditions. They have the weight of early Abstractionists, like Arthur Dove. They also have the soft hand of Agnes Martin and a color palette borrowed from an elementary school classroom. The paintings use the same elements: patched together blocks of primary and secondary colored shapes, networks of lines that suggest structure but don’t add up to any, and one dominating, flatly colored shape. Read More