Anna Collevecchio

“The Door Is Right There”

Of celestial spheres, suns, squiggles, the mysteries of time and space, and the cruel tick of the clock

Anna Collevecchio, a painter and a modern mystic, isn’t ridden by the furies as ferociously as the famous lifelogger On Kawara was. But she does do something that he might have: she counts her strokes.

The circular, hemispherical, and hexagonal paintings on display in “The Door Is Right There” are scored by thousands of vermicelli-thin lines, and the artist, mindful as she is, keeps track of every one. More than that, she reports the tally.

On the side of a great, thick circular panel marked from top to bottom with little gold dashes that swim, stream, bend, and loop in whorls reminiscent of a human fingerprint, she’s recorded their number — sixteen-thousand three hundred and eight.