James Kalm visits an exhibition of works by Lori Ellison at McKenzie Fine Art, New York, on view through February 16, 2014.

Kalm notes that Ellison "peruses her painting with an obsessive devotion to repeated pattern and compact picture plane design… Reducing most pictures to shades of one color, and simple binary motifs, through hand made distortions Ellison nonetheless creates illusions of warped space and billowing surfaces."