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“Siena is our Paul Klee, taking a line not on a walk but on adrenalin-drenched runs. The pictures range from crackling geometric abstractions and process-dictated designs to varieties of perfervid noodling and spasms of sex-obsessed grotesquerie. Siena’s line is as implacable as an animal’s hunger and as allergic to boredom as a sugared-up child.”
Peter Schjeldahl , The New Yorker, April 11, 2011

A sharpened pencil, some plain white paper, and the hand of an artist setting forth.
If this simple picture is a given, so too is the on-going conversation between abstraction and representation. A …