Now What It Never Was

Anne Riley

Nick Griffin, Philip Harrell, Anne Riley

Nick Griffin, Philip Harrell, Anne Riley

Philip Harrell

Now What It Never Was, an exhibition at UT's Visual Arts Center that closed yesterday, was a show about abstraction and painting, although I think I glimpsed something that said, "this is not a show about painting."  Did I see that on a wall text?  Whatever it was or wasn't, the painterly abstract mark coyly asserts itself in the works of Nick Griffin, Philip Harrell and Anne Riley.  I was most drawn to the collaborative works, where visual decisions become anonymous.