
Michal Rovner
Less than two full minutes alone with Fields of Fire, 2005—the title piece of Israeli-born Michal Rovner's second solo show at the gallery—was enough to induce a panic attack. The exhibition begins innocently enough, with a large pigment on canvas (Medba, 2006) that lulls you into thinking you're in for a quiet round of seductive paintings, perhaps some nods to the gouaches of gallery artists James Siena and Sol LeWitt. But the next wall hosts the first of two departures in medium: elegant metal-framed LCD screens, the size of postcards, containing detailed halftone abstracts with small, motile