Julia Rommel, “Candy Jail”

Colorful and exuberant, Julia Rommel’s geometrically abstract paintings call to mind a mix of Kasimir Malevich and Richard Diebenkorn, among other masters of the form. But the work, in which flat applications of pigment are overlaid with choppy strokes, is indubitably her own, especially in the way she stretches, then removes, her canvases over different sized frames while they are in progress. The process leaves ghostly linear marks that add compositional complexity to her efforts.