When you write about Christian Rex van Minnen, it is often started with some sort of descriptive text about ugliness, the grotesque, something bulbous, something swollen or jellied. The talent, the application of paint, is both reverential and revolutuinary, but we are stuck in trying to tell ourselves and our readers that van Minnen paints something that is hard to look at. But change in the self, change in the world around us, is often quite ugly, or leaves one exposed to something transitory and undefined. In the new show, L’or mord l’os (gold bites bone), Cadet Capela notes of van Minnen “His paintings show how experiences of change can be physically felt, transforming the body into a host of…