MATTHEW RITCHIE.(the artist's abstract painting)(Brief Article)

Don't think of Matthew Ritchie's work as painting, exactly. It's more a collection of grandiose narrative schemata and possibly crackpot notions involving science, theology, information theory, and who knows what else. Sure, painted canvases play a conspicuous role, and these are both striking and intricate, with their puzzlelike aggregations of colored shapes, nervous draftsmanship, and annotations in black marker.

They are mostly nonrepresentational, it would seem, though there is a bit of recognizable imagery, too: For instance, one of several works titled (like the show as a ...

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