Currently we find Pantazopoulou in a two-person show at another of our favorite galleries, Situations, paired with Mariah Dekkanga whose colors compliment Pantazopoulou’s more overtly. The hammock that we saw at Safe and which is on its way to becoming a signature Pantazopoulou trope, has become more vibrantly colorful in this iteration. Its brightness and suggestion of leisure juxtapose cleverly with the raging gray hustle of New York in winter.

As always, Pantazopoulou uses the detritus of the drab world of multinational capitalism, which — while drab in its soul — produced the colorful dental slides, tinsel and plastic marigolds that Pantazopoulou repurposes into the ultimate leisure object, the hammock. In the gallery’s window, she has also created a gear-like structure whose bright colors are put in relief by black elements.

Mariah Dekkanga is a painter whose use of color does not begin with the materials she finds (as is the case with Pantazopoulou), but rather comes from a more conventional tradition of color theory. Her abstract paintings manage to achieve magnificently stable compositions while combining wave like shapes with rectangles and a multitude of overlapping colors. What is more, the wave shapes she paints exist in combination with contrapuntal waves of impasto. The effect is similar to watching a complex ballet executed effortlessly.

It’s a perfect show for the bleak midwinter: full of color and complexity. It’s up at Situations until February 25.