Inheritance is a slippery concept. The difficulty begins at inception, with the fact of its condition as a byproduct of generationality that is only occasionally indexical to it. What is inherited is never quite the same as it was at its source; and it is only ever a small fraction of all that has come before. Rebecca Ness investigates both the processes and products of inheritance. Major preexisting themes in Ness’s practice come together in two new large paintings that mark a similarly…