Around the galleries by Christopher Miles

Undoubtedly influenced by the traditions of abstraction, landscape painting, photography and cinema, Anne-Laure Sacriste commingles those genres’ expectations and conventions. In a prior body of work, she capitalized on the long tradition of using water’s reflection of its surroundings, like trees and rocks reflected in a lake, as a picture within a picture, to produce what were in fact clear abstractions but felt like realist landscapes. In this latest body of work, Sacriste sets horizontal rectangles of reflective white paint within more-boxy gray panels — like wide screens in theaters. Painting atop these grounds with watercolors that run down the surfaces, she delivers landscapes that seem plucked from motion pictures, offering both the luminosity of a projected image and a sense of animation, each derived from little more than smart, strategic and dazzling material handling.