Paul Mosse

There are traces of artists from Julian Schnabel to Jean Dubuffet in the frantic surfaces of Paul Mosse's paintings. Texture is king here, with heavy impasto making only the most minor of impacts among matrixes and aggregates of all sorts. Chunks of ragged, sawed plywood and matchsticks are painted and glued onto board. Thick, malevolent funguses of paper, pulp and sand cling to some pictures, while microforests of deep black pins project from others. The first impression is of an art that is casual and chancy. But there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. Mosse's precision of cuts and pastes, his webs of fine hieroglyphs, the contrast he effects at an almost microscopic level, all suggest that nothing has been abandoned on these busy surfaces, simply left in the right place. Closes November 29th