Michael Berryhill, "Beggars Blanket"

Berryhill's oil-on-linen canvases are both elusive and allusive: Neither abstract nor figurative, they're stingy about revealing their exact meanings, yet they suck you into trying to figure them out. Stylistically, they hover somewhere around the mid-20th-century mark, suggesting the efforts of Rothko or Motherwell when both were trying to work their way out of Surrealism.