" Here George Billis smartly contrasts Goldenberg’s rural intimacy with the hardscrabble cityscapes of Todd

Gordon.

In Gordon’s work, it is hard not to see the painter Rackstraw Downes, who also employs snaking train tracks

and fish-eye realism to give sight to the urban unseen.

Yet Gordon stands on his own, especially in a painting such as The Green Barn, a scene of corrugated metal

siding and graffiti that has the transporting sense of a modern ruin. "