cubistically

Seeing the object of your amorous attentions sliced up cubistically?

This is executed cubistically and competently in lustrous colors.

Gertrude claimed to use words "cubistically," Leo said, in a manner most people found incomprehensible.

Not what you get in the dance hall, but to use it cubistically - to make it more exciting than ordinary jazz."

"No, I shouldn't be treating you cubistically."

Gail Lee presents images of tropical fruits that, divided cubistically down the center, are virtually abstractions, celebrations in clear bright stains.

Equally menacing is Janet Tate's logo-like composition of triangles cubistically shaded from black to white (1981).

Foltyn's portrait of Dostoyevsky puts the writer in the center of a universe gone Cubistically awry.

Printed across several panels, the figures overlap Cubistically but otherwise the work is a straightforward if casual portrait of men standing in two rows, their expressions amiable and interested.

Flat, elegantly sawn fragments of wood, several adorned with Pfizer labels, are Cubistically composed in a vertical scheme that intriguingly melds substance with shadows.

And then there is Ernest Fiene's 1928 lithograph of white roses standing in a black vase against a background cubistically divided into areas of brown, red and black.

The effect is dramatic, but Mr. Anderson pushes his point by embellishing the frame cubistically with rectangles of black vinyl floor tile - the disagreeable kind streaked with white.

Then again, there are compensations from lesser knowns, like Henry Gasser's view of houses standing beside a railroad bathed in cold sunlight and in front of cubistically painted green mountains.

For one thing, his linear shapes, stenciled in blue over yellow, red over green and so forth, are imposed on grounds spray-painted with rectangles cubistically shaded and garnished with spatter.

The best things here are his abstractions from the 50's, tightly packed arrangements of disembodied elements; his flat, elegantly sawn fragments of wood Cubistically composed in a vertical scheme intriguingly meld substance with shadows.

Yet Alexandra pulls it off even as she produces canvases packed with Picassoid details, specifically the cubistically modeled planes, asymmetrical faces and grotesque hands that appear in the artist's images of the 1930's and 40's.

Of these works, done between 1979 and 1999, the largest is a near-life-size bronze gorilla, cubistically stylized but all brute menace as it squats on a pedestal, its steroidal arms suggesting those of a boxer or a longshoreman.

Though it looks like a collage compiled of slivers of colored paper, Jordon Wheat's "Masks" is actually a drawing in colored pencil - of a head seen cubistically from front and side but rendered Surrealist by the inclusion of three life-like eyes.

In Ms. Mutu's collages of cubistically broken-up female bodies, which seem both iconic and tawdry, we're seeing elements borrowed from Africa by early European modernism returning to African in contemporary art, looking both familiar and fresh, radically remade, conceptually repositioned.

One of his best efforts, the scene of a gun freak sitting with his treasures in a kitchen, is mounted on a chunky cross dabbed with black and gold paint, and the eye, it seems, of the same model, enlarged, fills the spyhole of a large door painted cubistically with white circles.

At the John Weber Gallery (142 Greene Street, through May 27) are the new cubistically carved and carpentered wood sculptures of Mel Kendrick and the latest paintings by Bruce Boice, whose cobbled-together abstractions take increasing pleasure in the ways and means of oil paint.