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A compact, live-wire show now on view at Thrust Projects, on the Lower East Side, gathers one canvas apiece by eight painters, all women, who have developed a distinct approach to abstraction. The exhibition is curated by gallery regular Elizabeth Cooper. Contrary to the slightly hyperbolic press release, the work doesn’t really “break through the boundaries of abstraction” so much as find an idiosyncratic place of its own within abstraction’s extraordinarily diverse landscape. The best works in the show are tough, a bit nasty, and happen also to be the five largest.
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