NEW YORK, N.Y.- Bortolami presents Richard Aldrich’s second solo show at the gallery. 1. In the studio they were made individually, with their own logic and circumstances, but here as they are presented they become more of a symbolic gesture. This manner of presenting an importance or objective, but in the same swoop tearing it apart in a way that questions the motivation of that initial importance (deterritorialization), which becomes almost a red herring in its surface-ness. I always think of the paintings as a prop in the sense of their own interior specificity in relation to an outward meaning or function, which, to me, is one of incongruence. The defined logic of the painting’s individuality bears little resemblance nor has much effect on the way in which the painting functions in the larger whole. I liked this because the painting becomes wholly specific