The hard-edged abstract paintings of Odili Donald Odita at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston are so beautiful it's tempting to revel in their intersecting shapes and shards of color and leave it at that. Odita, who was born in Nigeria, raised in Columbus, Ohio, and is now a professor at Temple University's Tyler School of Art, has said his paintings convey a sense of multiple perspectives. "I utilize this notion of 'double-ness' to speak to the very real fact of how I grew up — with one foot in Nigeria, via the bubble provided by my parents at home, and the other foot in a middle-class American educational and social system," he says.