Paul Brown at Nicole Klagsbrun. (New York).

Paul Brown's recent paintings evoke memory by way of tactility, color and the metaphoric properties of palimpsest and excavation. The surfaces are built up, sanded and then recovered in layers of oil paint that has been mixed to a granular consistency, like plaster or thin cake icing. The paint crumbles as it reaches the edges of the canvases. Most of the paintings, all untitled, are around 2-by-3-foot horizontals covered with small holes, made with a nail or with the tip of an ...