Eva Lundsager’s paintings in “Ovation” at Praise Shadows Art Gallery seem built from sensation. The Boston-based artist is process-focused; like painters Joanne Greenbaumand Amy Sillman, she follows the directions the painting takes her in. Her sometimes gooey, sometimes ephemeral materiality, strident color, and biomorphic forms echo the ceramic sculptures of Arlene Shechet and Kathy Butterly because, as in ceramics, there’s something here that’s all about touch.
But ceramics can’t really convey space, and Lundsager’s suggestions of horizon lines orient us in a landscape, as in the glacial “We are quiet,” with deep blues and blushing whites rent by a streak of red. But then you see droplets of paint moving upward, defying gravity, and the painter’s world turns upside down...
