(click image to enlarge) Meta Vista: Each of the artists in this exhibition generate work from a distinct point of view, but each point of view is one that is illuminated and connected by this show’s title, Meta Vista. Meta: beyond, transcendent, self referential and critical, in the abstract. Vista: an extensive mental view, a distant expanse. These artists make the invisible visible, make the real unreal, and vice-versa. Each is engaged in a practice of advanced visual art that overtly or subtly engages an existential discourse; form and formlessness, presence and absence while remembering that a vision is both an analytical tool and an intuitive experience, as well as both difficult to attain and a pleasure to apprehend. There are echoes of a formalist modernism, but the textures, structures, forms and surfaces of these artists deal in and with the eternity and the struggle of the present. Reductive by degrees, these artists make work that challenges our perceptu...