The June Kelly Gallery presents recent expressionist paintings by Frances Hynes, an artist whose lyrical abstractions reflect a radical redefinition of painterly space. The exhibition, entitled Layers of Time, opened at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on Friday, February 24 and will remain on view through March 28. Hynes, inspired by wooded landscapes and rugged seacoasts continues to work from the pleasant memories she holds of sojourns in New England or along the coast of Maine. With remarkable competence and ease she marries representation and abstraction in the same composition, allowing her to convey the feel of a place, rather than the actual look of it. With deft blurring of line between abstraction and representation in response to changes in light and weather, as they play off the foliage of the woods or the tossing waves of the ocean, Hynes’ paintings celebrate the rhythm of nature. In Hynes’ re
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