The paintings in Douglas Degges' intimate series "Props for Pictures" have an innate organic appeal that make them winsome exercises in form that you want to spend time with.  A broad color range flickers through the earthy and good-humored personae of these small works.  United by an ambitious impasto that recalls poorly-stirred pancake batter, the paintings have only a rough compositional geometry - with rectangles, triangles and edges coming and going...