Michael Berryhill: Bright Lights, No Sweat

Tabernacle Trapple (2014), 58 x 50 inches, oil on linen, 2014 I dropped by Kansas Gallery to see Beggars Blanket, Michael Berryhill's show of recent paintings, and was greeted by a four foot long glass vitrine containing more than a thousand small paintings and drawings. At the outset, I must apologize for the limitations of language to express what I saw. Some things are truly better in person. The drawings housed in the vitrine varied -- some read as intense, almost mechanical drawing while ot...