Allegra Kirkland blogs about the exhibition Matt Phillips: this and then at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, on view through April 20, 2013.

Kirkland writes that the "exhibition’s title refers to Phillips’ interest in the relationship between the fixed, stable quality of finished artworks and the active, immediate way in which the viewer processes them… Phillips’ works underscore our craving for narrative familiarity and our insistence on transforming abstract lines into recognizable objects and forms… For Phillips, the challenge of communicating organic, real-world subject matter through a limited, geometric formal vocabulary is endlessly intriguing."