Nasser Lubay's Hues of Innocence

The works of Nasser Lubay tremble, coagulate, drip and coruscate with color, unashamedly, freely consuming all the available shades and tones, tasking us to reconsider the greatly pervasive sense that less is more. But the painter puts his works under the label “Nursery of Curiosities.” With that heading—actually the title of his solo show—the artist sort of takes our hand back to images ofbeginnings, not of the primal kind but of the temporal, that place in the home where humans are initiated into the world.

The stereotypes of pastel, the sound of tinkling bells and the comfort both of solace and security are all found in a nursery. But this is simply just not a nursery; it is a nursery of curiosities—the “infant” asking, disputing the world out there.