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Life in the Big City--

Loft interiors in a state of renovation or ruin are the subject of Morgan Craig’s crisp paintings. Strong contrasts of dark and light and often dramatic viewing angles breath life into spaces you wouldn’t choose to hang out in. The viewing angles Jay Brockman favors look up city streets from the perspective of a car passenger. The chaos of headlines, signals, windows, towers all set against the resting place of the sky plunges your eye downward into a man-made purgatory. More speculative are Kathleen Buckley’s urban settings, at first blush calling to mind ‘city of the future’ animations and those wonderful David (“The Way Things Work”) Macaulay books. Taut, aggressive line work by turns may only hint at architectural structures, depict them under construction, or give in to a clearly observable environment. All three artists are graphically strong, and clearly brought together to complement one another (at Lawrence Asher, West Hollywood).