Minerva presents a solo show of new paintings by Caesar Florence-Howard.

If, as David Joselit writes “…every artwork is indescribable”, then Caesar Florence-Howard’s singular paintings are exemplars of this situation. Descriptors might refer to his organic seeming surface textures, constructed through a guided process involving the adding and subtracting of many layers of art and non-art materials such as acrylic paint, sand, glue, and liquid latex. Additional attempts at an adequate description could discuss the morphology and restless movement of his images and their reference to past decades, movements, and multiple artist influences. Ultimately however the paintings defy simple description as much as they defy the flat picture plane. They are complex units tied to multiple referential networks: the history of painting, sociopolitical, psychological, and emotional tides, and the artist’s and viewer’s perceptions.