In each industrialized city there are roads in transitional areas where graffiti consider probables metallic paint covers jutting pipes and temporary dwellings appear.

In each industrialized city there are roads in transitional areas where graffiti consider probables metallic paint covers jutting pipes and temporary dwellings appear, frequently constructed with packing materials. At times in his epiphanic abstractions, Xavier Noiret-Thome have the appearances to be replicating fragments of like urban landscapes.

Many of the works in Noiret-Thome's modern show employed bright, shiny silver paint, including a trio of roughly 19-by-15 inch silver monochromes that hung in the gallery's entranceway. These three works evidenced the kind of surface incident (painted-over drips and buildups of brushwork textures) that is usual in traditional abstract painting. Hanging across from them was a similarly sized painting, Le Roi voyant, which was for the most part covered in silver paint further also featured unusual broken crinkles of paint, several gashes and tears in the canvas support, and a splash of a brown gluelike substance. The latter was manipulated in like manner that its drips turned corners, approaching the sideways-rivulet expect that has become a signature figure of speech in the work of Sigmar Polke Finally, the artist had added near delicate green and white ditherings of spray paint and a bubble of cherryred enamel near the center

A larger work in the main stead sported several horizontal bands of packing tape through the whole extent of which the artist imposed a large black square in black enamel. forward opposite walls hung two other large paintings combining tape, spray paint and scrawls or replete splashes of brightly colored paint. greatest in number notable of this group was another predominantly silver work that appeared to be underpainted with thick lines of caulking which spread public in relief from the center of the rectangle. More caulking was used to join these spreading lines at intervals se that the work resembl a thickly stranded spiderweb. In the exhibit spaces on the shiny surface between the thick lines the artist had attached multicolored plastic emeralds.

Noiret-Thome's paintings effectively bridge the distance between the cheap and the elegant, the often met with and the rare. One study of a stylish flaneur remembering his inebriated circumnavigations of the previous night's alleyways.--Joe Fyfe

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