Luis Gordillo insists on abstraction in the three years’ worth of paintings in this exhibition, but he does so without renouncing the figurative elements that have informed his work for so long. Several of the more recent canvases show ovoid forms, organic elements which invade the magmatic ground of the painting and sometimes almost take it over. These amoeboid shapes are like live organisms moving and agitating in liquid, adapting themselves freely to the space that contains them. Connecting filaments snake out from them in all di rections, reinforcing the paintings’ suggestion of the chemistry