Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue

Dyson starts each painting with the canvas flat on the floor, letting translucent dark acrylic pool across it. Then come the fixed parts: brass brackets holding taut cotton string, dots of bright paint, shaped wooden panels. The works grow out of her years as a deep-sea diver, and the Brooklyn Rail's critic saw "a night world illuminated here and there by points of light."

There are thirteen, all made this year and smaller than her installations; The Distance Inside Us is 14 by 11 inches. You end up looking from the side as well as the front, because, as the Rail notes, the paint running over the edges tells its own story. It's a night dive on West 25th Street, minus the certification course.

The Rail called it "a tour-de-force show." The catch is scale: these are small, dark works, and a lap from the doorway misses the edges and the hidden panels. Free, at 540 West 25th Street, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, until 24 October.