Joseph Piasentin's Intimate Paintings at Galerie Gail Harvey

An exhibition of small-scale works by Joseph Piasentin at Galerie Gail Harvey in Los Angeles from January 18 to February 22, 2003. The paintings, each 20 x 20 cm, create intricate microcosms through dense layering of arabesques, spirals, and colored circles. The critic James Scarborough describes them as offering consolation in a frightening world, comparing their luminosity to stained glass and their precision to Paul Klee. Works like Composition 10/2/02 and Composition 12.3.02 explore order versus intuition, with the latter split into a gridded left side and a freeform right side. The exhibition presents eight pieces that serve as analgesic micro-worlds, providing coherence and joy amid societal disorder.