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Elizabeth Harris Gallery shows work by recently deceased artist Pat Passlof

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Elizabeth Harris Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Pat Passlof. This is her seventh exhibition with the gallery. The gallery is located at 529 West 20th Street, 6th floor and is open Tues. – Sat. 11-6pm. In an essay for Passlof’s last exhibtion at the gallery David Cohen writes, “However much her gestures and textures are emotionally articulate, and her surfaces are rich and resonant, Passlof is not an expressionist in the traditional sense of emoting through paint, of the brush being some kind of a geyser to her soul. Patterning, in particular militates against any kind of self-satisfied ejaculatory mark. And yet, equally, she is no slave of systems: grids, patterns, and repetitions have nothing to do with the formalist’s color field or the minimalist addiction to the serial. Her painting is an assured, fluent balance of gesture and composition.” Reflec