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Surreal paintings of the American West at Harper’s and meditative images of abandoned structures in Haifa, Israel, at SLAG&RX reveal artists with keen sensitivities to place.

In her solo show, titled MacGuffin, the shells and flowers in [Li's] sublime selection of paintings and drawings do precisely what the title implies: they trigger a plot.

Leino’s handling, however restrained, admits manifold inflections. The minimal traits are either loosely dispersed or densely crosshatched; they stand out clearly in a serial row or blend almost indiscernibly into the field. Anchoring the infinity of color to the finitude of the hand, they ground contemplation in a distinctly embodied practice.