I wonder what it's all about? No, that's not a question; that's the name of the Mike Capp exhibit at Mineral. His paintings "don't really mean anything dangerous, angst-y or irksome. There's no mewling social commentary," he says. Nor are they "meant to provoke the unarticulated terrors of childhood. They're just drawings of monsters, superheroes and robots," often inspired by his young children.

There's an inconsistency to Capp's work that I hope will work itself out before long. Some of his paintings are very precise renderings of pop and surrealistic images, while others - still with the same kind of imagery - are more painterly, sketchy and imprecise. Longtime readers of this column know that I'm partial to sloppy and energetic gesture painting, but in Capp's paintings the more careful and precise works are much better.

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