Contributed by Christopher Stout / Over the past 15 years, Patricia Fabricant has experimented with distinctive heroic elements within her work, some figurative and some that seem to be extracted from nature. “Horror Vacui,” her solo show at Equity Gallery, presents 26 inventively patterned gouache paintings that follow the conceptual approach the show’s title – meaning “fear of empty spaces” – suggests, filling the entire surface with detail and composition….