Staggeringly reactionary paintings for a staggeringly reactionary world, Sabine Moritz serves up “lyrical abstractions” (this is a genre, not an assessment) with the warm Crayola-explosion palette of early Jasper Johns and the paint handling of a tamer and more European Cecily Brown. These surfaces positively pullulate with squirming strokes struggling to be anything more than the old-fashioned post-post-Impressionist floral smears they are, and it looks like Moritz is having a wonderful time, not least because the canvases are large enough to communicate that she is working in a very large studio somewhere. What anyone else is supposed to be getting out of this exercise is more obscure.

Sabine Moritz: Frost
Gagosian
456 N. Camden Dr.,
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
On view through December 21, 2024