Christopher Knight reviews the exhibition Mark Dutcher: Transfer at Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, on view through October 19, 2013.

Knight writes: "Together, Joan Mitchell and Jasper Johns would seem to be an unlikely pair of inspirations for a new body of paintings, but there they are hovering in the background of 10 lovely recent works by Mark Dutcher. Two kinds of nominal handwriting — gestural abstraction and a recognizable vocabulary of painted signs — slip and slide across the surfaces of his canvases, as if perpetually merging and fading away."