Paintings from Sympathy Letters – Peter Adsett

The sheer physicality of the paintings – Adsett builds his work with about 80 layers of paint – boycotts our expectations of narrative, of formal composition, even of verticality, as the standard dichotomies of light and dark, foreground and background, within the frame and outside the frame, is deliberately foiled. The resulting works are compelling, unsettling and strangely beautiful.