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Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to open the 2018 exhibition season with a solo show featuring new oil paintings by Brooklyn artist Josette Urso.

Teetering between the urban and natural, Josette Urso makes paintings working directly and urgently in response to her immediate environment. Her approach involves moment-to-moment extrapolation governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color and wayward geometry. The play of visual coincidence creates pleasures, just as it keys us into the generative power of chaos. In all her work, Urso’s visual contrasts and cross-fertilizations unfold and are …