The New York-born, Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass employs an evolving formal vocabulary in varied scales and configurations which purposely obscure narrative. In Newz!, an abstract assembly evocative of a strip of matches and symmetrically paired stadiums or portals, are placed slightly off center within a large purple field. In a review in Artforum, the writer Zoë Lescaze described Bass' work as "a Dada poem for the age of advertising, a comic strip by way of [graphic designer] Paul Rand and [painter] Ellsworth Kelly."[1] While Bass continues within a lineage of hard edge painters, the artist innovates their approach through incorporation of gradient, as well as representational forms to suggest positive and negative compositional space.