This exhibition of new canvases shows the well-known Minimalist painter in something of a holding pattern.

Her designs are reminiscent of the classic striped pattern of 19th-century Navajo rugs and blankets, but there are overtones of the linear art of Minimalist painters.

In 1982 Paul F. Walter donated drawings by many Minimalist painters and sculptors, including Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, Mel Bochner, and Jennifer Bartlett.

Exhibitions by Minimalist painters like Robert Ryman and Blinky Palermo were on view for months.

Yet, they often retained the same 'flattening grid' frequently employed by Minimalist painters.

The grids recall the work of Minimalist painters like Agnes Martin, and the copied images recall Pop Art, particularly Andy Warhol.

Still, as the Minimalist painter Ms. Rockburne cautioned: "There's something with how this ricochets.

One by one, the Minimalist painters came to the conclusion that the barest facts of paintings were sufficiently visual, evocative and meaningful to stand on their own.

People who know Mr. McCurdy as a Minimalist painter will be surprised by his new canvases: meticulously made, near Photorealistic portraits of people depicted from the waist up on stark white fields.

The artists range from Agnes Martin, the 85-year-old Minimalist painter, to Nari Ward, a 31-year-old native of Jamaica who was one of the young stars of the 1993 Venice Biennale, and who is known for sculptural installations made of found objects.