A site-specific installation, this exhibition included two wall-size paintings hanging opposite one another, surrounded by twenty-one small paintings on wood panels. Made of stones of colored matter -- suggesting minerals from which pigments are ground -- cast acrylic shells, pumice, and various other materials, the small paintings suggest a kind of Theme and Variations, as their bright colors, layered texture and line drawings of spiral forms appear on a grand scale in the large paintings. Born in 1949, Nahas earned his M.F.A. at Yale University in 1973 and has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad over the last three decades. The catalog includes an essay by Nathan Kernan. Sperone Westwater, 2005 12 x 9 inches, 20 pp., color illustrations Hardcover, ISBN 978-0982848197