Alexis Rockman: Ecocide-attentive paintings.

The CULTURE PAGESTo DoART3. See Alexis Rockman Ecocide-attentive paintings.Magenta, 149 Canal Street; through February 24.For decades, Alexis Rockman's hallucinogenic amalgams of ecology and life-forms have taken shots at the forces killing the environment. Here, he pulls back in a series of smaller, very beautiful naturalistic watercolors of flowers, reefs, treetops, kelp forests, even ants. Perhaps all is not well in this world, but it is rendered with such loving attention that we are brought in and swept away.By JERRY SALTZ [Extracted from the article]