Chris Ashley writes about the work of Mira Schor on the occasion of the exhibition Mira Schor: Painting in The Space Where Painting Used to Be at Some Walls, Oakland, through December 18, 2011.

In his essay Ashley notes: "What scale in painting is really about is the relationship of all the painting’s components – what is depicted, material, color, line, stroke, etc., but also the subject and content of the painting – to the surface and the size of the painting: an integrated, holistic entity that, in addition to its own actual size, can suggest grandness or intimacy, or something in between and appropriate to the painting's subject… Schor's paintings may be small in size, but the scale of her work is ambitious and generous."