The Brooklyn Rail review

Jim Long reviews 'The Filipino Roots of Minimalism: Leo Valledor and Mario Yrisarry' at the Mitchell Algus Gallery for The Brooklyn Rail.

...Leo Valledor’s painting starts with geometry, but it’s about practically everything else. He uses geometric division and color the way a musician (which he was) might give life to the phrasing of a line or passage. At his most reductive, Valledor employs a single zigzag division made up of multiple “fingers” that lock perfect pairings of color to the painting surface. These read as “rays,” each originating at points in the infinite distance, from the left and right, simultaneously arriving in the form of dovetailing vectors to create an experience of light-drenched fullness...

Smithsonian / Archives of American Art New York Regional Center Gallery

Art and Space
Park Place and the beginning of the Paula Cooper Gallery
Archives of American Art New York Regional Center Gallery
UBS Building, 1285 Avenue of the Americas between 51st and 52nd streets
Oct. 17 through Feb. 23, 2007

Mitchell Algus Gallery in Village Voice Best of NYC 2006

Best Art Dealer In Need Of A MacArthur Award - Mitchell Algus
By Jerry Salz for The Village Voice

...Think of all those painters and sculptors that you've vaguely heard of or remember seeing in the back of an old art magazine, circa 1968 through 1979—people whose work was prescient, accomplished, and even important but who somehow managed to either slip through the cracks or otherwise lacked that certain social something that allows some artists' artists to reach that next level...

...A word to some museum somewhere: Maybe your institution could dedicate a small gallery for Algus to curate; it would be an amazing history lesson...