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   AROUND THE GALLERIES July 8, 2005 A pattern to his patternlessness Review of Miller Updegraff's solo show, Evidence of things unseen By David Pagel Special to the Times One way to insult a painter is call his work wallpaper. But if you dismiss Miller Updegraff's paintings as innocuous decoration dispensed by the roll, the joke's on you. At Gallery 825 Bergamot Annex, 13 deceptively simple acrylics on canvas turn elements of domestic interiors into fascinating forays into the mind's capacity to see order where there isn't any. Updegraff's paintings resemble swatches of wallpaper in a high-end store. But something uncanny catches the eye. Despite a restricted palette of ivory, russet, gold, vermillion and midnight blue and a limited number of stylized plant silhouettes, no patterns or repeated clusters of stalks, leaves and buds can be found in Updegraff's art. He has managed to beat pattern at its own game, transforming its absence into a supple organizing principle that's experienced as expansiveness.
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