Artist: Mary Mito Venue: Downs & Ross, New York Exhibition Title: Sifts, restores Date: February 27 – April 12, 2019 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Downs & Ross, New York Press Release: For more than a half-century, Mary Mito (b. 1944, Hartford, CT; lives and works in New Mexico and New York) has rendered permeable interfaces between constructed and natural environments with a singular continuity of attention. While her rarely exhibited paintings are most often compelled by a relentless descriptive force conveying vast tracts of visual information, the terms of their format, structure, and medium are uncompromising, rule- bound, and precisely delimited. Painted over the span of six years, the ten spare, individual 28 x 42-inch oil on panel works comprising the exhibition’s titular series Sifts, restores (all works 2013-2019), draw from the art