They look like dyed fried eggs, or multicolored avocados cut in half, or artistic representations of cell drawings from grade-school science class.
But for all their seeming simplicity, the paintings featured in Las Vegas artist Jerry Misko’s latest exhibition actually are the complicated result of random chance and rolls of dice operating within a set of predefined rules.
The exhibition, “Polyhedral,” runs through Sept. 15 at The Studio at Sahara West Library. Misko says the paintings are an extension of previous pieces he has done that incorporate those fried egg-like flashes of color surrounded by concentric rings — bringing to mind light bulbs or casino neon — and of pieces he created for a show last year that involved translating rolls of traditional dice into drawings.
