If it still made sense to speak of abstract art, Letizia Galli’s paintings would have to be called abstract. In her captivating chromatic compositions, often set against a background as black as icy space, galaxies of colors with indefinite boundaries take fire, gracefully arranged on the canvas so as to seem more a texture than an image. These porous boundaries result from a process whereby the color interacts with a solvent that spreads randomly across the canvas. Set in motion by the artist, the process is nonetheless outside her specific control, since the material and its contrary clash