Shirazeh Houshiary; Lehmann Maupin.(New York)

Poised between aestheticism and asceticism, Shirazeh Houshiary's delicate, elusive new canvases are marvels of formal restraint and rigor that manage to generate extravagantly seductive perceptual effects. Her recent show--dominated by a suite of large-scale black or white monochromes illuminated with feathery passages of contrasting pen or pencil--is evidence of progress in a conceptual program the artist once characterized as following a trajectory "from form to formlessness."

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The Iranian-born, London-based Houshiary is usually associated ...

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