Lorna Robertson's colorful paintings, often made with a combination of oil paint and collage, have a distinctly nostalgic tone. Shimmering female forms with swinging skirts from the 1950s or bonneted bathers from the 1920s jostle with richly described interiors and crowded tabletops. Hints and glimpses of tangible forms--a fashion model, for example, or a vase--appear and then fragment into patterns and explosions of color.
This new publication...