A Color School Reunion For One at Osuna Art
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By Jessica Dawson
Friday, March 14, 2008;
Page C02
- Poor Howard Mehring. Left out of the "Color as Field" survey downtown, the Washington Color School painter gets a little airtime at Osuna. Inside the gallery hang formalist works with reverse "z" patterns in saturated colors; the matte surfaces of these '60s-era works feel their age. The show continues in the lobby, where abstractions patched together from cut-up swathes of canvas bring to mind Frank Stella's experiments. Now nearly a half-century old, Mehring's pieces may fray at the edges but they're more compelling for their imperfections.
Howard Mehring at Osuna Art, 7200 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Tuesday-Saturday noon-5 p.m., 301-654-4500, to April 5; http:/
