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Meridian Gallery: Franck André Jamme - New Exercises; Dhyana - Contemporary anonymous Tantric drawings from Rajasthan; Form +. 

Artists from Form +: Todd Bura, Léonie Guyer, Prajakti Jayavant, Phil McGaughy, Evelyn Reyes, Dean Smith.

Comment by AB: A three-fer exhibition curated by CCA Dean of Graduate Studies, Lawrence Rinder. Now there's all kinds of inside-the-beltway artsters scurrying about which clues you into the fact that, relatively speaking, we've got ourselves a notable moment here. Anyway, according to the official arm of the operation, here's the dice roll-- "These three related exhibitions explore form as vehicle for imaginative experience. The artists here use form as a provocation to attention and as an armature for understanding. Abstract as they are, these works are not simply self-referential but rather allude to conditions and capacities of the mind."

I'm not exactly sure if that means what I think it means (or if I even get it), but to me, the concept seems to be about stripping away basically everything except shape, so when you look the art, about your only option is ruminate on the fundamental underpinnings of it all. Or maybe not. Whatever it is, the overall exercise decisively favors theory over practicality, or as we say in the real world, paying the rent. Nevertheless, each of its three facets offers up a distinct inkling into that ever-evolving bouillabaisse we call art.