In Control Release Control, the new sci-fi/psych paintings by abstractionist Laurie Danial are unleashed. Chunky and gemlike, they read like twisted games people play through boggling mazes. Danial slowly reveals, extracts, represses and converts patterns like an illusionist who will swallow the key before revealing the invisible threads holding it all together. In the long line of painters like Philip Guston and Cy Twombly, her trajectory is as perfectly obscured. The message in the madness reveals itself through mark making, erasure and happenstance. Layers of quirky lines and lurid color meet organic deposits in the flux of a surface that has a serious sense of humor and endless symbolism. TJ NORRIS.

Where: Froelick Gallery
Phone: 222-1142
Address: 714 NW Davis St.
Website: http://www.froelickgallery.com/