Steven Alexander blogs about Clare Grill: Touch’d Lustre at Zieher Smith & Horton, New York, on view through April 25, 2015.

Alexander writes: "These paintings dive head first into the history of great painting — the all-over space of Pollock, the shape-making of Gorky and Kandinsky, the playfulness of Klee — and emerge looking utterly fresh, direct and personal. Grill's touch is completely tuned in to the nuances of the paint and the linen, creating fields of marks and shapes that accumulate to a state of utmost sensuality … Grill has found a zone, an intimate space and a beautifully poetic vocabulary. The paintings seem to have sprouted, fully formed from her hand."