Joanna Kleinberg reviews the exhibition Elise Adibi: Da Capo at Churner and Churner, New York, on view through June 30, 2012.

Kleinberg writes: "Adibi continues her abstractions in painting and drawing, working with a limited set of materials – canvas, carbon powder, charcoal, and oil paint. The assemblage of pencil drawing and painterly brushstrokes are marked by an intricacy that suggests that Adibi works with the material history of modernism as much as she excises it."