Art.

The exhibition by Irving Petlin, a young artist originally from Chicago, Illinois was provocative, savage and beautiful, but far removed from any of contexts of current New York art. This second show, comprises a suite of fifty-four pictures, an unusually large number, under the collective title, "The Removal of the Body of Christ From Asia." Paintings are small oils, executed on vellum and each placed a little below center on the page. In color, these little paintings are almost shocking, not because of anything outrageous about their hues, but because each dab or streak of paint is like a violation of the bare vellum.