ABSTRACT REALMS

The career of artist Susan Maakestad has been devoted to the wide-open spaces of the American landscape, as defined by highway interchanges, shopping mall parking lots and suburban streets and curbs, rendered in a fashion that’s almost abstract. For her exhibition of recent work, “White Out,” opening tonight with a reception at Circuitous Succession Gallery, Maakestad pushes more into the abstract realm as she blurs the limits of sky and earth and presents the urge to move, to press on, to explore the void in cloudy, transcendental terms. The