Paintings by Stephanie Campos, Ethan Greenbaum, and Eric Hibit

Working outside of the fashionable “feel good figuration” genre so prevalent in today’s New York art world, these three young artists make abstract paintings that riff on or eliminate the “picture” space preferring to highlight a more three dimensional, “tact”-tile surface. In their hands, paint becomes a sculptural object, which can be layered, excavated or collaged along with other materials. The painting’s facade becomes the bedrock for a variable construction site of texture, color, and form.

With an emphasis on the physicality of their respective materials, these artists create work that is in essence a microcosm of abstract painting strategies minus any particular deference or overt irony. They demonstrate a continued dedication to and the vitality of abstraction in contemporary art.