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While there may be some lingering doubt about whether or not it occurred, the jazz great Miles Davis is reported to have said, “It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.” This approach, which we could term “conscious omission,” is a perfect entrée into Renee Hanan Plata’s works. Much like a jazz musician, Plata has an incomprehensible focus on the simple things – on the ways shapes repeat, and on decisions she makes to separate one thing from another. Or, in her words, “In each of these, I concentrated on painting a single square, one at a time.” If we were to flip Miwon …