Piri Halasz reviews the work of painter Randy Bloom, on view in the exhibition Louise & Randy: Hotter than 'Ell at Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn through November 13, 2011.

Halasz notes that Bloom's "artistic lineage is distinguished, beginning both earlier and later than geometric abstraction — earlier in the sense that she takes off more directly from cubism, later in the sense that her most immediate artistic ancestors are in a direct line of descent from abstract expressionism… Bloom's color sense is marvelously subtle: her colors are radiant, and the fields of color upon which her images sit look as though they were the fruit of many layers of paint, with the undercoats lending only a truly beautiful soft glow. "