Lily Simonson interviews curators Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster about the exhibition Unfinished Paintings at LACE – Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions on view through August 28, 2011.  The exhibition features "paintings by 38 different artists at various stages of completion" illuminating the process and decision making that occur in the development of a painting.

Calabrese says: "I look at painting as a container that has the flexibility to address multiple layers of meaning, dependent only on the intention of the artist. A painting is complete in itself and carries itself with you, wherever you put it…"