The multifaceted Danish artist Per Kirkeby, who died in 2018, was fiercely against Conceptualism. “I’m a painter and have painted a painting,” he once stated, “and really, I don’t want to say anything more about it.” Kirkeby sought to capture the light and patterns of his homeland. In the 1950s, as a young man, he trained as a geologist before joining Copenhagen’s Experimental Art School. And like so many artists, he was captivated by Abstract Expressionism. His quasi-figurative landscape paintings see bright yellows and oranges shining through aggressively thick strokes of earthen color. This small retrospective spans Kirkeby’s six-decade career, and puts the focus on his love for the land, its rough and shifting grace. —Elena Clavarino