Ella Coon reviews Aubrey Levinthal: Refrigerator Paintings, recently on view at The Painting Center, New York.

Coon writes: “The paintings’ quotidian content, fragmented imagery, and color choices make the pieces feel both elusive and earthy. When looking at the works together in the tiny space, the viewer is reminded of not only the bodily activity attendant on a midnight snack—the tiptoeing, rummaging around, and peering into a cold ill-stocked cavity while half-asleep—but also the fluorescent aura and pirouetting shadows cast by a cracked-open refrigerator door.”