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We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider supporting us as a member. Join Us When I ventured out to see Aubrey Levinthal’s first New York exhibition in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I described her as a figurative painter “trying to get at the elusive and unsettling without developing a narrative that can be easily extracted by the viewer; she is in pursuit of the ambiguous, uncanny, and withdrawn as integral features of everyday life.
” The current two-person exhibition Lacey Black & Aubrey Levinthal: Daily Night , at Monya Rowe Gallery, reaffirmed my initial sense of her work as an exploration of formal issues, such as the figure-ground relationship, in order to convey the tension between outward appearances and inner states. In her recent work, Levinthal pursues this preoccupation while pushing into new territory t.