Juxtapoz Magazine – Neighbors, Strangers, Gazers, Bathers: Aubrey Levinthal @ Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC

Monya Rowe Gallery is fired up to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Aubrey Levinthal titled Neighbors, Strangers, Gazers, Bathers. This is the artists’ second solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery. In Levinthal’s preceding solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery, the paintings concentrated on her own day-to-day interiority and the quotidian, typically positioned in the home. For this exhibition, Levinthal displays on ones’ marriage to the outside the house globe and moves the psychology away from the isolated self to a much more unidentified drifting space. The paintings are infused with more daylight, coloration has develop into brighter, and the figures are much larger.

Shared environments, these as neighborhood coffee outlets, yoga studios, hospitals, motels and swimming pools are fraught with nuanced tension and individual relationship. Levinthal heightens the psychological area among observing and realizing. The paintings examine a perception of insecurity, self-reflection and curiosity in collective areas. In Bagel Line (2022), a team of pals positioned outdoors a bagel store huddle carefully alongside one another in wintertime coats. Their expressions array from anxious to annoyed to keen highlighting ones’ personal duality.

The artist assignments an inside lifetime on to these strangers: a barista, a particular person standing in line, a blue-haired teenager at a consider-out counter, or a shopper in a garments retailer. In the paintings, objects acquire on summary styles and act as limitations. In Crab Shack (2022), two brown paper luggage give the perception of a wall in front of a pensive youthful lady.