What are they putting in the coffee over at Canadian Art Magazine's staff room? Some sort of odourless mental retardant?
Verbatim from the current online edition's front page:

"Much of the success of the painter Shelley Adler’s current exhibition at Nicholas Metivier Gallery is in her treatment of subject matter whether it's an eerie close-up of a young boy sleeping or a candid portrait of a young woman in a towel. But on closer inspection it is the sheer visual power of Adler’s skilfully painted canvases that demand attention. Lushly rendered in the vibrant, hyper-real colours of Pop art, Adler’s thick brush strokes and smooth surfaces read like frosting on a birthday cake that beckons to be touched. The unconventional colour of her canvases evokes definite emotions and also conveys a strong decorative and aesthetic quality. Comparisons with Warhol’s silkscreen portraits are unavoidable. Take for instance High Tension Magenta, a magenta-hued close-up of a beautiful woman’s face that expresses a real sense of anxiety and anticipation with a masterful painterly touch that ultimately privileges surface over meaning. Very different but equally appealing and unnerving are Adler’s paintings of empty banquet tables set for a meal. These scenes are like portraits in absentia where the viewer is left to fill the seats with people then construct a narrative."