by Roberta Smith
Alex Ebstein: ‘Form/Fit’ (through Dec. 20) A young painter adept with yoga mats (of all things) makes her New York debut in the new downtown gallery of a former and current employee of the Skarstedt Gallery venture. Ms. Ebstein exploits the mats’ bumpy texture and colors with compositions that have one foot in design (think soft Formica), one in 1950s biomorphism and a third in present interests in worldly abstraction and painting-without-paint. She paints patterns on a few of her cutout shapes, and these also look promising. Cuevas Tilleard, 142 Henry Street, at Rutgers Street, Lower East Side.
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