David Row (b. 1949, Portland, ME) is a contemporary abstract painter and master printmaker living and working in New York and Maine. Row manipulates symbols of infinity and juncture; ellipses and exes (which have appeared in various forms throughout the artist’s oeuvre), are cropped, flipped, and inverted into complex compositions.

Acting as abstract “signs,” these distorted fragments signal the intersectional space of perception. Row’s modular motifs, interrupted by bright lines of fluorescent pigment, hard-angle edges and the vertical seams of joined canvases, rupture traditional Euclidean frameworks and transform the illusory two-dimensional painted plane into a multi-perspectival infinite space.

In dialogue with the traj...