Barry Schwabsky reflects on two recent exhibitions: Stanley Whitney: Left to Right at Team Gallery and Jacqueline Humphries at Greene Naftali Gallery.

Schwabsky writes: "For a long time.. the abstract painter had to negotiate the anxiety that he might be doing or showing too little; more recently he has also had to worry about doing too much. Yet between the two extremes there has always been a sweet spot where a little and a lot, austerity and sensuality, have coalesced." Schwabsky finds this "between" In the work of both Whitney and Humphries.