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Lisa Corinne Davis and Shirley Kaneda create bold, colorful abstractions that contain a multitude of meaning through both free expression and restraint, a duality that informs the base geometric structures of their compositions—the grid for Davis, vertical stripes for Kaneda. The destabilized visual fields evidence layers of history—art history, immigration and identity, place and memory—through a palimpsestic interplay of biomorphic and hard-edge forms.

In "Deliberate Deceit," for example, Davis layers a gridded field with a paint pour that mimics the distorted grid. The dark blue …