Joshua Abelow

Date
6 March 2012

Brooklyn-based artist Joshua Abelow makes fascinating and likeable paintings. When viewed as a group they look like a code of repetitive visual tropes; the same configuration broken down and painted over like colorimetry tests or quilts or typographic grids. Essentially what Abelow’s small and rational burlap canvases do is “a lot with a little” – simplicity that can be read into and a sensibility with colour that is as unexpected as it is pleasing.

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Bryony Quinn

Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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