Wards off viruses if you put over your face
“Up, Over and Around” (acrylic medium, acrylic pigment, wood burning), by Erica Licea-Kane, in her show “Half Spaces,’’ at Kingston Gallery, Boston, through March 29.
'Burned underlayer'
The gallery says she “uses the title, a mathematical term for dividing space, as a departure point for a nuanced exploration of painted surfaces that reveal, conceal, and seem to invert portions of the original understructure. While her works are technically paintings---specifically, acrylic pigment, acrylic medium, balsa wood, and pyrography---they transcend the formal preconceptions of this medium by referencing fiber art and sculpture. In fact, the experience of viewing her work is an invitation to move closer, to navigate the edges, to catch glimpses of a burned underlayer partially buried under patterns of paint. Or was that thread?’’