Ellen Goldschmidt - Pardon My Paradoxes Embracing its ironic title, Ellen Goldschmidt's new exhibition, Pardon My Paradoxes beckons viewers into a colorful world of contradictions. Among the exhibition's paradoxes are pictures that invite multiple reads. In one painting, for example, suggestions of an underground root system may equally be read as a towering highway. In another, granite-toned rock formations vie with fleshcolored strata that suggest viscera, producing a paradoxical conflation of the outer and inner. This push and pull of overlapping interpretations is heightened by the artist's seductive use of color, which provides a gateway into her complex, richly-layered abstractions.
