Aschheim’s canvases hum with the allusive potential of marks: indications of motion, presences—or, perhaps more accurately, situations—arising out of subtly reworked, almost pearly depths. Lines radiate and scatter, or sift in fragments through space. Everywhere one senses the artist’s diligent attention. What might a line do here? What would it say to this form here? The viewer absorbs this process of richly accumulating associations: the openness and searching of scattered lines; the conversations between paired forms, the transience evoked by scraped-down surfaces. The separate sensations gather as mysterious, multivalent impressions. JOHN GOODRICH (2013)

Eve Aschheim, Guess, It’s Back. 2014.  Oil on canvas on panel, 12-1/8 x 16-1/4 inches. Courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art

exhibition continues through April 19 at 138 Tenth Avenue at 19th Street, 212 750 0949