Olive Ayhens presents 'Extreme Interiors' science lab paintings at Lori Bookstein Fine Art

Olive Ayhens presents her 'Extreme Interiors' series focusing on science laboratories in a project room exhibition at Lori Bookstein Fine Art. The show runs from February 23 to March 24, 2012, at 138 Tenth Avenue at 19th Street in New York City. Ayhens' work contrasts with architectonic abstractions by Eve Aschheim in the main gallery display. Her paintings depict computer labs with massed banks of wires rendered through a pulsating, fish-eye perspective. While her earlier cubo-futurist streetscapes showed near-apocalyptic frenzy, these interior scenes reveal a slight softening of spatial stratifications. The artist intensifies the sheer nuttiness of her line and color in these works. David Cohen describes her approach as creating a Pollock-like all-overness combined with Kokoschka-like perspectives. Ayhens' depiction of controlled mayhem and externalized mess supporting inner order serves as a metaphor for her artistic method.