Algus Greenspon’s ability to find strange painters is their gift, and moreover to put together the best shows by those aritsts. Old or youth, people that don’t fit into nice contemporaneity. Chapman might be a Schutz meets De Chirico mash-up, but conceptually they’re actually closer to Matthew Cerletty in their cerebral meta painting-plane winking; again the puzzle pieces adding up to mystery. These less game-board, but more narrative ennui, the strange decisions subtler, the guitar string fingers, and scabby shadow. It's almost content to just let the painting be paintings, but not totally. Whether these will be boring in 5 years or great is hard to tell, sometimes its just the relief of something not in lineage with cold minimalist graphic design.
