"Affinities: Painting in Abstraction"

Curator Kate McNamara of the Boston University Art Gallery rounds up eight artists—Polly Apfelbaum, Nicole Cherubini, Joanne Greenbaum, Suzanne McClelland, Jenny Monick, Carrie Moyer, Dona Nelson and Laurel Sparks—whose approaches to abstraction, while different, share a penchant for action-oriented processes.