James Formichella: Animal, Alphabet, Apocalypse

James Formichella works by association. Each of these nine paintings has a companion in "An Alphabetical Caprice," a notebook he compiled from his working notes and clippings, where every letter spirals somewhere unexpected: an aardvark to apartheid, a bear to Wall Street, Van Gogh to a dog. Art history, etymology, money, madness, and mortality, all rhyming.