James Kalm visits several painting exhibitions currently on view in Bushwick including: Abstraction and Its Discontents at Storefront Ten Eyck and Oskar Nilsson: Rehearsal at Interstate (both through November 23), and Andy Cross: Mirror Venus at SARDINE (through November 2).

Abstraction and Its Discontents features works by Benjamin Adelmann, Meg Atkinson, Jeffrey Bishop, Sharon Butler, Miriam Cabessa, Paul Campbell, Marc Cheetham, Paul Corio, Jeff Fichera, Matthew Gehring, Brian Guidry, Collin Hatton, Sara Jones, Jody Joyner, Maureen Meyer, Russell Perkins, Christopher Rose, Suzan Shutan, Tatiana Simonova and Andrew Small.