Mark Flood "Roger" (1983) (detail)
Texas artist Mark Flood may be best known for his lace paintings from the early 2000s, the large, multi-hued acrylic pieces that use torn fabric to illusionistic ends. But his expansive retrospective, “The Hateful Years,” at Luxembourg and Dayan through Sept. 19, presents those delicately rendered lace works as a fairly profound deviation.