Monya Rowe Gallery is energized to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Aubrey Levinthal titled Neighbors, Strangers, Gazers, Bathers. This is the artists’ next solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery. In Levinthal’s former solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery, the paintings centered on her very own everyday interiority and the quotidian, typically located in the home. For this exhibition, Levinthal demonstrates on ones’ connection to the outdoors entire world and moves the psychology absent from the isolated self to a far more unidentified drifting room. The paintings are infused with more daylight, colour has grow to be brighter, and the figures are bigger.
Shared environments, these kinds of as neighborhood espresso stores, yoga studios, hospitals, hotels and pools are fraught with nuanced tension and private relationship. Levinthal heightens the psychological room in between observing and realizing. The paintings check out a feeling of insecurity, self-reflection and curiosity in collective areas. In Bagel Line (2022), a team of good friends located outside the house a bagel shop huddle intently with each other in winter season coats. Their expressions selection from nervous to irritated to eager highlighting ones’ have duality.
The artist assignments an interior existence onto these strangers: a barista, a individual standing in line, a blue-haired teen at a just take-out counter, or a shopper in a clothing store. In just the paintings, objects choose on abstract styles and act as obstacles. In Crab Shack (2022), two brown paper luggage give the effect of a wall in entrance of a pensive young girl.
