The exhibition pamphlet for “Angelo Ippolito: A Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper” states that Ippolito’s subject is “light,” which may be true, but his is a light unlike any seen in the natural world. His colors are far more iridescent—almost Day-Glo—than those produced by the sun. Born in Italy, Ippolito has lived and worked in upstate New York for more than twenty- five years, painting landscape-derived abstractions, which recall Hans Hofmann’s pulsating canvases.

In the best paintings on display here— generally the large oils—Ippolito achieves a brazen luminosity, with rectilinear shapes and brushstrokes emerging from expanses of bright colors. Of course, in abstractions such as these, composition weighs equally with color in the success of the work. A large field of fluorescent orange on which geometric marks in a number of colors —magenta, purple, red—appear, Kusadasi Bazaa ...