How did Roberta Smith describe it in the Times? “A wry, opulent cartography of their
[paintings] own making.“ I couldn’t agree stronger. This is the second
show of Urso I’ve seen. In last year’s show, the whites that dominate
her palate were definitely much grayer and more blended into the brief glimpses
of surrounding colors, forming a not altogether unpleasant abstract smear of dirty
pastels. Maybe it’s the coming of spring, but her new work seems cleaner and
the color palate brighter. Even her abstract lines that often look like maps of
urban spaces seem to be opening up occasionally, and feel less like an overhead
topographic map and more like a view through the looking glass into an abstract
plain. It might be terrible to say, but I feel this is where Loren Munk’s work
could have gone if he wasn’t so singleminded, but if Loren Munk wasn’t so
singleminded, he wouldn’t be Loren Munk.
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