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With this recent exhibition of 19 paintings, Ruben Nusz (he/him) continues his decades-long exploration of what is still possible within the expanded lexicon of painting.

Rooted in idiosyncratic and well-researched color theory, Nusz returns to the geometric abstraction he first established with the gallery a decade ago. Paintings in this exhibition feature an illusory still-life structure that appears spatially incongruous; scenarios he describes in terms of theater, “I’m merging the ‘theater of the absurd’ with Malevich’s nonobjective abstraction. The distorted still life is like a …