Asya Geisberg Gallery is pleased to present "Rot Open in Bliss," an exhibition of paintings by Ricardo Gonzalez. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Gonzalez employs a virtually monochromatic palette and simplified gestures to explore the language of abstract painting. Mutinous, tarry figures bearing grimaces and smirks intermittently disrupt the series' more unfettered compositions, which at times suggest both rudimentary aspects of a figure, and remnants of cultural iconography. "Smile" for...