LA CIENEGA AREA

Briton Bruce McLean appears in an exhibition as small as it is thin. Three large paintings evoke the Jazz Age and chic black women in a flip one-coat graffiti-style reminiscent of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Four monotypes are mainly devoted to the scrawled image of a gunboat centered in an abstract wash. McLean possesses a crisp wit that might amuse in small-scale works but here it is canceled by pretentious size, wispy means and paucity of number. (Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 8364 Melrose Ave., to April 27.)