Inside Haven's gallery 1 Cindy Tower has reassembed  a factory from East Saint Louis, Illinois, with life-sized representations of machines from the Armour meat processing plant.   The Paintings are rough and loose  done with tar and peeling paint on transparent sheets of plastic placed in maze like progression this dark installiton feels like a old factory .Her work reminds me of Guston it has his strange grace and wierd preoccupation with detail.her smaller works on canvas are less detailed but brighter,I would be able to live with those.

in gallery 2.  Scott Lowenbaum presents an incredible group of small works These works were done on location with Tower over the past few years. These paintings are not about the factory in the way that Towers are they are all about color and freaky composition. Lowenbaum infuses his canvases with saturated color from pigments like rubys and lapis , There is an exuberant dynamism Lowenbaums Factory , that was hard to resist. The work feels unforced, appealingly frenzied. His work is graced with a larky pictorial humour. However, with a few happy exceptions, this exhibition showed a lopsided relationship between quite ordinary ideas and extraordinary talent.
Lowenbaums old master on acid palette (and  his strange paint application created by taping off sections, spray-painting or stencilling, scraping and scratching) flaunt protean surfaces, highlighting a mastery of colour and shape. He thrives on detail, embedding his compositions with partially obscured figures and objects

After seeing his shows in paris and milan last year I have to say that these are the best paintings he has ever done ! It was worth the trip from paris to see these paintings,not to mention the fact that they are priced in dollars.