The way Alicia McCarthy works, there is a controlled and celebrated chaos to the actual tightness of her compositions. It’s a ying and a yang. There is a sustained practice at hand and the openess for chance, something a good abstract painter lets occur in the studio. For her newest exhibition at Jack Hanley, it seems like we need this confrontation between this meditative labyrinth of ideas at the moment. The potential of destruction with the possibility of perfect bliss.