The IMA was buzzing with activity Thursday night---tour busses of students viewing the Louvre show, packed gift shop, Happy Hour revelers swarming Puck's, walking tours forming in the lobby. I wanted to see the work of Adrian Scheiss, his so-called -trademark flat paintings- placed on floors or propped against walls throughout the IMA. I shall return for repeated viewings, but at first glance I do not have anything positive to say about these works. First off, they are not paintings (OK, maybe technically they are, if rainbow lacquer is considered paint). A couple of them are out-of-focus photos of paintings, but otherwise they remind me more of shiny, sometimes glittery formica countertops about the size of a ping pong table. Hey, I just thought something positive to say about these works: they sure are clean. Very clean. And shiny. Like clean, shiny formica that makes me want to play table tennis or air hockey.