ROY THURSTON
Stainless Steel Paintings

In this exhibition, Los Angelino Roy Thurston's "paintings" actually
aren't paintings. This group of new work consists of small, thick,
rectilinear panels of stainless steel. The surfaces are polished, by
hand, directionally. The faces of the paintings shift, depending upon
changes in light and perspective, between mirrors and cloudy fields.

Thurston's work was also recently exhibited in "Panza: The Legacy
of a Collector," at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

A recent graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute, Andrea Higgins
makes paintings that are magnifications of fabric swatches. Glen plaid,
herringbone, houndstooth, check, each thread is represented by a brush-
stroke. The repetition of the marks, like weaving of threads, creates pat-
terns that are both minimal and dynamic. The paintings are elegant ab-
stractions, yet each familiar fabric carries associations for the individual
viewer.

LEONARD PASCHOAL
Reflecting Air

Paschoal is a Swiss artist currently based in Los Angeles. His geometric
paintings hover in the gap between two and three dimensions. Fine, shallow
incisions and deeper diagonal insertions disrupt the surface of the paintings.
Segments of aluminum and pure pigment contrast against a fine layer of tiny
glass beads. The shimmering, shifting surface created by the beads has the
quality of light reflecting off mist or clouds as seen from above.