This Thursday would have been sculptor Alexander Calder’s birthday. It seems an appropriate moment for Not Extractions, but Abstractions, a show curated by Michael Clifton, which honors and echoes Alexander Calder’s whimsical spirit and rhapsodic love of reductive forms. The exhibit is actually the second part of a show presented at Karma International in Zurich earlier this year, and includes the work of six artists. Simplicity and bursts of saturation are the connective glue between work as varied as Polly Apfelbaum “Fallen Paintings” (made from colorful strips of clay), the flattened yet lyrical plant compositions by Jonas Wood, and Hanna Sandin’s hovering mobiles.

The show is on exhibit through August 14th at Clifton Benevento, 515 Broadway, NY, NY