Bhaskar Krag is a New York-based painter who showed last year at Oberlin College, Ohio and at the Educational Alliance in New York City. His studio is a regular stop on Art Walk, which benefits the Coalition on the Homeless. Krag's impastoed surfaces cannot be read at first glance. His images emerge slowly, imposing order on the swirling brushwork. The forms themselves appear to be floral, with plant-like tendrils and colorful petals. Krag's unabashed embrace of joyous visual activity is easily shared.

Nancy Rielle, a Williamsburg painter was recently in "Humanoid", a show of abstract painting and sculpture which traveled from Genovese/Sullivan Gallery in Boston to the Vedanta Gallery in Chicago. Her work was seen in New York last year at the Skowhegan Alumni show at David Beitzel Gallery. Rielle's work relies on careful, crisp paint application to render idiosyncratic forms. Rielle's scenes are at once narrative and highly personal, creating a curious tension whereby the viewer is privy to secrets without the context to understand them.

Julia von Eichel, lives and works in New York. She had solo exhibitions last year at Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C. and at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She was also included in "Wall Paper" at Nicolas Davies Gallery, New York. Trained as a sculptor, her paintings have a sensuous materiality. Von Eichel will exhibit a 9 x 10-foot green field painting which seemingly envelops the viewer.