"Of Things Soothsaid and Spoken": Paintings by Yevgeniya Baras

Installation shot "Of Things Soothsaid and Spoken", paintings by Yevgeniya Baras, is the current show at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects. Baras makes paintings that disrupt expectations of format and stretch the bounds of what a painting is, by veering into sculptural relief, building up the painting surface with various 'weird' materials (aluminum foil and chunks of wood for example) on all parts of the support -- front, sides and back. My first impression was that the artist did so in the ques...