Friday, April 1st, 2005

Henry Finkelstein: New Paintings

Kraushaar Galleries
724 Fifth Avenue

Until April 30


Despite his looser, larger strokes, his spaces are persuasively rendered; no less than Blaine, the artist knows how to hold down a distant point in space with a sudden note of blue or green. In “Pond, Gray Day,” a cacophony of hues—greens, browns, blues—cluster in the foreground as reflections on a pond’s surface; so nuanced is the artist’s sense of light that these colors instantly hold as a single plane stretching luminously into the mid-distance.

Mr. Finkelstein tends to be less patient than Ms. Blaine, less inclined to linger and savor an object’s location to see what it portends. But his extravagant brushwork delivers, energetically, the effect of the frittering of clouds in a wide sky, the craggy tower of a tree trunk, and the scruffy edges of late afternoon shadows on grass.






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