"THE PLAYGROUND" YOUR GUIDE ON WHAT TO DO TONIGHT

When: Thursday, January 7 @ 6 PM Where: 516 West 20th St Why: In her ​highly anticipated ​second solo exhibition at the gallery, Lauren Silva's paintings take on a new sheen. A combination of painting, printing, and collage on ​silk​, Silva's several signature approaches are heightened by the inherent luster of the fiber. The painterly quality of her digital manipulations and saturated​, vibrant​ sense of color combine, light sources appear and evaporate, morphing​ and creating a dimensional schism. Distinct layers are often defined by the inclusion of seamless collage elements in the form of applied paper, outlined in black, like cartoon clouds on the parti-color dream of a tranquil pupa. Smaller in scale than those paintings of her 2014 debut exhibition, the new work matches in surreal ebullience their predecessors, praised by Roberta Smith as "big, boisterous semi-abstract canvases (that) exude an impressive confidence... like close-ups of billboards or a tour through some outsize undergrowth in which nature has merged with several brands of abstraction, from early American Modernism to Color Field painting... (Silva) is already is tackling a lot with an astuteness and aplomb that make her a painter to watch." [Details] [photo via @kapprecords]