Contributed by Sharon Butler / Brooklyn artist Maya Brym's vivid new paintings, on view at Frosch & Portmann through February 24, invigorate domestic life with a sense of lightness and clarity. Geometric shapes defined by stencils and masks are painted in bright colors with wide, transparent brushstrokes. The shapes conjure water bottles, bowls, fruit, potted plants, and small figurines. As the elements overlap, a basic illusion of space is created. Other complexifiers (ht to Jeff Bezos for coining this versatile term) like perspective and detailed rendering are largely gone from Brym's lean menu of painting tricks. Thanks to her aggressive use of color and quirky translation of objects to canvas, however, the paintings are not ascetic but exceedingly magnanimous.
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