The current exhibition, Crazy Beautiful II, at Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Larchmont, is an explosion of color and form, hidden text and whimsical sculpture. "My vision for this show is an exuberant and unabashed love of color and paint," says Kenise Barnes, the gallery owner and curator of this second show on these themes. "What happens in this show is that collectively the artists are making a statement about the taming of chaos—being on the verge of falling apart and making it coalesce."

The seven artists (Kathleen Kucka, Kirk McCarthy, Mia Pearlman, Cristi Rinklin, Hadieh Shafie, Jackie Tileston and Susan Chrysler White), whose works comprise Crazy Beautiful II, hail from across the U.S., each one working in different media and style, but together forming an organic swirl of sublime imaginings.

The works range in price from $195, for the white hanging polystyrene cuts of Mia Pearlman, to the enchanting and absorbing $15,000 acrylic and enamel multi-colored Plexiglas tiers of Susan Chrysler White's Attempt to Breathe, all visible in the front windows. Some of the works are laden with hidden messages, such as Iranian born Hadie Shafie's 1295. Her colorful paper rolls hide the Farsi word for love, which she pens repeatedly along papers of varying lengths before rolling them up, painting their edges and fitting them inside large square frames, creating contemporary mosaics of circular color.

Cristi Rinklin's acrylic and oil on aluminum Burst speaks of chaos. Her aim here is to extract order, employing art historical sources. "The background of her work is frequently taken from old master landscapes that she air brushes and uses as base for abstractions in the foreground," mused Barnes as she showed a visitor around the exhibition.

Kirk McCarthy's tubular wall sculptures, Ultraform System 2 and 3, cling to the wall. "Like colorforms," offers Barnes. Negotiated from epoxy putty-covered wires and car paint, these sturdy yet delicate sculptures lead the eye on a haphazard trip along their multidirectional lines.

Perhaps the most arresting of the works in the show is Jackie Tileston's Psychoexodus, multilayered with bursts of color and graphics, the palette wide and exuberant. The work is at once dreamy and abstract but meets at a focal point of distinct imagery, cartoonish there in line and color. Behind the desk hangs another of Tileston's works, this one centered around a detail of a master landscape and then layered with dreamy paint swaths and a blast of cascading glitter.

Kathleen Kucka's Nature of illusion and Shadowy Forms play off one another in their shape and organism. Hung side by side they are an eruption of cobalt paint, derived by the painter working on flat linen canvases, layering and sanding to form a smooth surface for the paint to interact freely.

This show is sure to attract a cross section of passersby. "Many people are intimidated about going into galleries," says local collector Joy Millette, a loyal client of KBFA. "But Kenise plays off what interests you and helps our community enjoy and take ownership of art."

Barnes has opened her arms to the public, hosting at least one or two interns from Mamaroneck High School each season and offering open receptions. This coming Saturday she will attend the Larchmont Arts Festival, bestowing a $500 incentive award to a fledgling artist whom she believes displays potential.