Michael Workman

Make the trek this weekend down to Bridgeport's tenacious project space, MN Gallery, for British-born artist Fraser Taylor's deliciously gloppy paintings. They're a visual confection, layered with fabric adhered to the canvas then painted into the surface. Using oil, Fraser creates representational work against abstract form at once geometric and organic. Many of the "drawings" in his earlier work are loosely rendered, after a style of doodling that's forced, childlike and starkly situated against a background of color sophistication. This show adds monotype, video and sculpture to the artist's repertoire. Contemplative and idiosyncratic, they're exercises in discernment at the point where form becomes substance.

Fraser Taylor shows at MN Gallery, 3524 South Halsted, (773) 847-0573, through April 24.

(2004-04-09)

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