Capricious Space is a refreshingly modest studio near the corner of Bedford and Broadway avenues in Williamsburg. As its name suggests, the space is fickle: sometimes a gallery, sometimes a performance venue—but always a consistent arbiter of good taste. For the next month, Capricious Space will be showing the work of Amber Ibarreche, a Brooklyn artist who deals in painting, collage and block print. I’m pleased to report that the show, like the gallery, is a quiet, thoughtful success.

“Ceremonial Entanglements” is Ibarreche’s first solo exhibition, but already the artist demonstrates a recognizable aesthetic sensibility. Much of the work is heavy with text—and even the paintings and prints that don’t include typography look as though they might. The reticulate patterns and peculiar characters of Ibarreche’s work successfully blur the line between geometry and writing: the result is artwork too dense to be read linearly, and too engaging to be skimmed. With the exception of Sheathed Ascendant—a set of Roman statues rendered in Peruvian color—the works are consistently subdued. Ibarreche seems as influenced by Eastern art as she is by traditional Central and South American geometrical design, and these she combines to innovative effect. In viewing Ibarreche’s work, one is struck by the patience of the artist, whose hand can render curvilinear strokes with mechanical precision, all the while depicting a humanity that predates the printing press.