museum openings

Flourish, a group exhibit, opened today at Robischon Gallery, featuring ten abstract artists. Primarily paintings as well as sculpture by Brad Miller, and installation by Katy Stone, the work is sensual, composed of rich candy colors, sparkling synthetic material (in the case of Stone), and delicate though daring formal composition. The title of the exhibit which connotes perhaps a sense of the lush and brilliant not only presents work that lives up to the suggestion, but artist’s whose technique demonstrates that sparseness can be just as ornamental as intricacy.

Florence Knoll, Defining Modern, a traveling exhibit that has already appeared in New York and Boston, among other places, opened yesterday at the Vance Kirkland Museum.