James McGarrell
Dex, 2007
oil on canvas, 80 x 60”
from the series, Window Jazz Inventions

“James McGarrell’s new paintings – four of which are named after legendary sax men, including TRANE – represent a major shift in the artist’s work. Coming late in a long and distinguished career as a figurative artist, these paintings are surprising not only for their abstraction but, like Coltrane’s dazzling tag, they push a set of conventions across a threshold into vivid, unrehearsed space. They catch us looking.”

—William Benton

On view at Jane Haslem Gallery through March 15th.