Kris Chatterson photo blogs images from the exhibition Douglas Melini: A Sharing of Color and Being Part of It at Feature Inc., New York, on view through August 11, 2012.

The gallery notes: "Working with the contrast between a minimal palette and intensive patterning (a dialog that allows the paintings to be simultaneously quiet yet deeply activated), Douglas Melini makes hard-edge abstract paintings that investigate color and space. 'I like to think of the paintings as being built, put together part by part, creating a geometric net for the viewer, a vibratory field.' The paintings' fields are both solid and porous, and while they are primarliy constructed as a mental or physiological expanse, even a cursory review of their titles suggests that one may connect to this work in a variety of ways."