John Yau reviews the exhibition Gideon Bok: Welcome to the Afterfuture at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, on view through March 16, 2014.

Yau writes; "Bok works on several paintings at once, working within a predetermined time frame in order to keep the ambient light in the painting consistent… Bok seems to be suggesting in these works, at the heart of music and painting is a dance between structure and improvisation, repetition and difference. All kinds of contradictory emotions seep into these paintings — loneliness and camaraderie, and the convoluted union between ordinariness and strangeness that is synonymous with daily living."