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"   Chris Vasell&amp;#039;s Neue Paranoia. Courtesy of Team Galley.  LA based artist Chris Vasell&amp;#039;s new show, entitled the The Estate of Chris Vasell, is opening at the Team Gallery tonight (through October 28th). Vasell&amp;#039;s brand of abstraction combines aspects of op art, figuration, and color field painting with surrealist imagery. Working in the vein of Robert Rauschenberg and Helen Frankenthaler for this exhibition, Vasell &amp;quot;utilized detritus scavenged from life, which is then frequently appliqu\u00E9d to corrugated cardboard sheets,&amp;quot; according to Team. &amp;quot;His paintings and collages are structured with a keen cerebral control that exists alongside a constant flirtation with chaos, repeatedly blending slapstick humor with a serious encyclopedic knowledge of his medium&amp;#039;s historical lineage.&amp;quot; If you&amp;#039;re not exactly sure what that means visually, swing by Team (located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor) to make your own judgments. In the artis&amp;#039;s Neue Paraonia (left) we see a dolphin, some matchsticks, &amp;quot;N&amp;quot;s that look like they were borrowed from a pair of New Balances, colored dots (which Vasell explains are foam tops with paint on top of them as well as metal disks) and a nautical porthole. The artist&amp;#039;s unique ability to combine radically disparate elements into a cohesive collage stirs the senses and makes you want to understand what exactly it is that Vasell is trying to say. If you turn your head to the left and view the painting horizontally, you can make out the word &amp;quot;neue&amp;quot; spelled out from left to right and see that the number of colored dots corresponds to the number of letters in the word paranoia. Vasell&amp;#039;s had several solo shows across U.S. and abroad, and has participated in exhibitions at several museums, including Chicago&amp;#039;s Museum of Contemporary Art and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. So if you can&amp;#039;t make it to the exhibition, be sure to keep him on your radar \u2014 he&amp;#039;s definitely one to watch. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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