The current show is a modest salute to the varied styles of abstract painting present in the recent works of four artists working in and around Boston today.

John Guthrie's paintings combine meticulously drawn graphic structures- products of his study and interest in scientific systems- with eye popping color permutations. His excursions into retinal experimentation and geometric complexity are reminiscent of 1960s Op Art, but his works have an electricity and immediacy that make them appear as if the paint was hardly dry.

Though Cuban-born painter Santiago Hernandez' compositions, Bongos, Hibiscus, and Varadero Flame, of concentric circles, graded stripes and pixilated squares are strictly non-representational, they reference, as their titles suggest, the heat, rhythm, tropical coloration and scent of the Caribbean. The universal language of contemporary graphic signage is at the core of the artist’s paintings, derived from his bilingual and bicultural experience.

Underlying David Kelley's spare elegant works is the artist’s dry wit. Candy colored speech balloons punctuate a space defined by meandering billowing gray matter, implying perhaps a purer metaphysical territory of thought or discourse or experience tangential to our mundane experience.

Carrie Moyer applies thin layers of translucent color enhanced with glitter on raw canvas, suggesting several art historical, political, and feminist references such as the pours of color field painting; the natural emissions of menstrual blood; and the silhouettes of primordial fertility goddesses. Her light filled canvasses are freighted with multiple meanings yet remain visually and spiritually buoyant.