Ghost Dance: René Pierre Allain and Larry Webb @ Sideshow Gallery April 9 – May 8 Review by Paul Behnke Larry Webb, High Tea, 2011, oil on linen, 96 x 72 in. Ghost Dance , currently on view at Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn, unites two long time and respected fixtures of the Brooklyn painting scene, René Pierre Allain and Larry Webb. The two-person exhibition also features a portion of Allain’s extensive collection of ceremonial masks. Webb’s paintings can be divided into two camps: The still, dark, and moody nocturnes and seething, molten, pits of head-jerking activity. The centerpiece of the show, Café , an imposing 98 x 136 inches, falls into the second category. It’s a constant push and pull of red, blocky chunks struggling to break free from, but sometimes succumbing to a dark ground, and keeps the eye darting from mass to curvilinear squiggles to brittle scrafitto to scumbled haze. Black/ midnight blue jig- sawed p...