LA CIENEGA AREA

Long-time local Lee Musgrave presents a dozen of those landscape-cum-abstractions rendered in big pastel washes. In one aspect they are like the fluxing, self-admiring abstractions of Paul Jenkins; in another they are distant admirers of Oriental ink painting.

They are not badly conceived and read OK from a distance (the further the better.) But in the end, they lack either the authority of Oriental strokes or the structure of Occidental painterliness. Images cling weakly to surfaces like washed-out slide projections. (Heritage Gallery, 718 N. La Cienega Blvd., to April 16.)