Steven Alexander blogs about Julian Hatton: New Season at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, on view through May 9, 2015.

Alexander writes: "Working with aspects of observed landscape as his starting point, Hatton builds abstract compositions comprised of many layers of shapes and spaces — beautiful contrasts of linear and planar dynamics laid out in juicy scumbled color. The paintings evolve and intensify through constant shifts and revisions, ultimately coalescing to a state of ecstatic presence — a place of deep painterly integration."