Article: Isabelle Champion Metadier at the Chelsea Art Museum.

Titled "Timetrackers," the 16 large abstractions in French painter Isabelle Champion Metadier's recent exhibition are vertical compositions measuring about 90 by 51 inches (2004-05). In each, a single large, composite form fills almost the entire height and width of the frame, and consists of three to six parts differentiated by shape and color. These bright-hued forms are set against white grounds that function as foils and also as positive shapes in their own right. The colored forms twist and turn and are full of erotic tension, as parts seem to restrain other parts, which swell almost to the bursting point. Playfully asymmetrical, they feel deliciously arbitrary, as if ...