Six decades since abstraction first seized the American art world, artists are still drawn to the style. Conceptual work may hold sway these days, but it seems there will always be painters drawing their inspiration from Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

The challenge, of course, is to develop new approaches to abstraction, and the three artists in Angles on Abstract, the latest show at Gallery One, are attempting to do just that. Foremost among them is Kentucky-based painter Patrick Adams, recently featured in Art Newsfor his ''spiritual landscapes,'' as the artist calls them.

Just as the Impressionists responded to the qualities of light and shadow when they painted outdoor scenes, Adams takes a somewhat related approach, explains gallery owner Shelley Liles.

''Patrick contributes to a growing trend of relying on the memory of specific objective experiences and images, and approaching that in a freestyle use of paint and painting materials.''

Look at Boston-based Swiss painter Katharina Chapuis' work, and the color field paintings of Rotho will likely come to mind, with their square forms and contemplative qualities. But Chapuis' work isn't simply derivative, Liles insists. ''Katharina deviates from the early colorists in that she really experiments with the medium itself,'' Liles says. ''She uses a mixture of gesso built up with plaster and oil paint, and it creates a dimension to the work that goes beyond pure color field. What you get is a deckled edge — a ragged, torn-paper kind of look around the edges of the work.''

The third artist in the show is Christina Doelling, whose own work takes the original abstract painters' path out of pure representation into something more open-ended, in which shapes and colors hint at specific forms — witness such titles as ''Two Pillows and a Hurricane.'' Liles notes that, as an emerging artist, Doelling gives gallery-goers ''an affordable option for buying abstract work.''