"A Zebra Races Counterclockwise" is a major exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Lesley Vance, currently on view at David Kordansky Gallery. Vance is known for synthesizing the entire history of painting in incisive, philosophically tuned abstract compositions full of luminous color and virtuoso spatial illusions. Inspired by Chicago Imagists and ceramic sculptors such as Ron Nagle and Ken Price, the unique vocabulary she has developed fuses the languages of expressionism and surrealism. In the exhibition, viewers will find some of the largest paintings Vane has made, where brushed gestures, biomorphic geometries and her incomparable palette melt into ever-more complex arrangements.