Your Move: Artist Mariah Dekkenga Uses a Board Game to Rethink Abstract Painting

In order to visit Mariah Dekkenga’s current show, “Non-Zero Sum,” at Situations on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one has to make a series of choices. What time to leave to make it there? At the subway station, run to make the train? Wait for the walk sign at the crosswalk or jaywalk? Say hello to old friends on the sidewalk?
Inside the compact gallery are three large, bright abstract paintings and, on a wooden table, a pair of dice and multicolored blocks. Two people are si