New York City.- Mallick Williams & Co. is thrilled to open its autumn season with “Avarice”, a solo exhibition of abstract poignant paintings by artist Erik Foss, on view at the gallery from September 11th through September 30th. Throughout his career Foss has established a practice that challenges status-quo notions of propriety by functioning between the worlds of high art and downtown culture. Foss in his artwork and social gestures (he is a founder of Lit and the attendant Fuse gallery) frames the clash of these two worlds that both neglects and provides ornate excess.