Zachary Keeting and Christopher Joy interview painter Aubrey Levinthal at her exhibition at Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, on view through October 14, 2017.

Levinthal remarks: “I like paintings … that when you look at first, it’s inviting, it feels good to look … but then there’s something to hold you into the painting … there’s something there [to make] you think there must be more than this, let me keep looking. And hopefully, the more you’re looking it rewards you… It’s exciting to me when that can be a painting moment or a narrative moment or if it can hinge on both…”