Rune Mields creates work in a formidable, quirky array of styles—large black paintings containing signs taken from ancient geometry; paintings on which male nudes are drawn on a paleolithic fertility symbol, accompanied by quotations from the Song of Songs; paintings filled with numbers through which a medieval warrior can be seen; grid paintings that reveal the sieve of Eratosthenes, an ancient method of discovering prime numbers that still serves as a foundation for modern computer programs; paintings with notes and diagrams, or Arabic and Persian ornaments; everything in black, gray, and