I stumbed upon ArtByDNA's work at the CrossRoads Cafe, near where I live.

  Looks like there will be a show in December in Midtown Manhattan, perhaps I'll go.

   

I'm not sure which of the two paintings above is the stronger work, you'd think the red stripes would make the painting on the right stronger - but I'm not so sure.

The idea of "reductionism" is nothing new - the artists, what appears to be a couple (but I'm not sure of that) jointly work on each piece, trying to reduce a picture to it's fundamental elements of meaning.  

It may be the "idea" of what the painting is and supposed to do is better than the actual painting.  I found the paintings unusual and decided to note it on ArtNewYorkCity.