Francess Archer Dunbar

Some of Lynne Golob Gelfman’s characteristic grids are scratched into thick paint; others unfold in carefully laid out patterns of isosceles triangles, or collapse in on themselves into overlapping, accusatory black x’s. But all of Gelfman’s paintings consider the role of the square in a world of squares, the state of overlapping crosses, the grid as both an inalienable fact of life and something that is dissolving before our very eyes.

North Miami’s condos are rising quickly these days, from the sugar-cube duplex boxes that are beginning to line Biscayne Boulevard to the skeletal forms that send shadows over the 123rd Street Causeway. A little ways down that same street, two new exhibitions by local Miami artists Rosemarie Chiarlone and Barron Sherer at Bridge Red Studios on view until November 10 tackle South Florida’s cycles of development and reinvention through immersive layered film projections that draw on a vast archive of the city’s demolitions and an imagined cityscape, recreated in both a child’s building blocks and a suite of architectural drawings for an invented community.