Renny Pritikin on Isabella Kirkland @ Hosfelt

When we walk down the street, we cross, unaware, through many overlapping and invisible realities. The territory of various bird species, for example, might encompass overlapping regions three blocks in any direction. Such invisibility falls into several subcategories: things that are too small to see or too fast. Also: imaginary things, things that no longer exist, disguised things, and other things we choose not to see.  We could add things we've never encountered, as well.  Isabella Kirkland, whose paintings are on view in a near-retrospective scale show at Hosfelt Gallery, explores almost all these aspects of the unseen.  The exhibition, her first at the gallery, is appropriately called The Small Matter, a title meant to soften the urgency of the message her works communicate.