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Simple at the Root

By Nichole M. Christian

Let me tell you a story.

Let me show you a journey.

This is possibly how the artist Don Kilpatrick—if he were more at ease at describing the indescribable—might begin to unravel the invisible threads and silent, yet sly intentions at work in his new solo show “Process / Progress.”

This collection of figurative paintings and hand-carved linoleum and woodcut prints is focused, like the artist, on the long view, a journey that finds Kilpatrick comfortably blending, even blurring the lines between years of nose-to-the grindstone study and a more recent …