‘THE SMALL EXCEEDS’
This display of works from nine mostly emerging artists, organized by, and including, Michael Childress, may be the quietest, most meditative group show of the summer. It offers a rare balm in a moment when tumult reigns on so many fronts, and takes its title, “The Small Exceeds,” from Hexagram 62 of the I Ching, which heralds “the preponderance of the small,” and counsels the strengths of restraint, conscientiousness and modesty. “Small things may be done,” it says. “Great things should not be done. If a man occupies a position of authority for which he is by nature really inadequate, extraordinary prudence is necessary.”
