Sabine Friesicke’s gouache paintings at Gallery Joe.

We’re not the only folks expanding the definition of drawing with our show Stimuli•Stimulus. At Gallery Joe paintings by Sabine Friesicke fit the bill with densely drawn lines and grids. Can’t wait to see this show. Here’s a bit from Edith Newhall’s column. We see grids everywhere, every day — I’m looking through window panes at our neighbors’ asphalt shingles right now — but when they’re transposed to paintings and drawings, the effect can be hypnotic, even romantic. At Gallery Joe, Sabine Friesicke’s gouache paintings, made up of multiple left-to-right and top-to-bottom strokes, are so densely layered that the squares and rectangles of space left between the strokes can suggest windows, modernist houses, city blocks. They’re abstract but familiar, like memories and dreams.