
Los Angeles artist David Korty’s latest paintings feature drawn and printed fragments (figural snippets, details of scribbles, patterned swatches) collaged onto royal blue grounds. Arranged linearly as though on shelves (the series is called “Blue Shelf”) or in vertical stacks, these components were culled from Korty’s previous works or speak to his artistic influences, illustrating what the gallery calls his “personal lexicon.” Korty’s self-referentiality can be a bit navel-gaze-y, and there is the lingering feeling that the paintings are too focused on a banal point about art as visual grammar. The graphic units, though, do add up to handsome pictures.