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Cryptopictos brings together four artists who create abstract paintings using patterned perforations, lattice-like structures, fields of repetitive marks, and calligraphic gestures that suggest writing and communication, but whose syntax is ultimately ineffable. The notion of a "cryptopicto," or cryptic picture, is further suggested by featured works that veil and obscure underlying imagery through layers of paint applied in hatch marks, pools, or with stencils.

Reed Anderson fuses printmaking, painting, and collage. He begins his perforated paintings by screen- or …