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Ranard’s Picture Show for Chelsea Now It’s all in the numbers Dorothy Nash, left, and friend at the opening of “Alfred Jensen: The Number Paintings” at the Pace Wildenstein Gallery at 545 W. 22nd St. Jensen was honored with a major retrospective at the Guggenheim in 1985, four years after his death. Considered something of a mystic, his work defied definition. In the latter third of his life, Jensen produced a massive series of paintings consisting of arcane symbols derived from the I Ching and Mayan calendar and using Arabic and Chinese number theories and the Pythagorean Theory. His paintings explode with color and rhythm; his technique was to squeeze the paint directly onto the canvas, like frosting on a cake. The exhibition consists of 11 paintings and 16 works on paper, spanning 1960 to 1980. It runs through Oct. 28.
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