A Shape That Stands Up

Time:12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. every Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat.

In Brooklyn-based Jamian Juliano-Villani’s painting, To Live and Die in Passaic, a little figure made of an orange peel carries its own flesh (i.e., an unpeeled orange), across the white steps of a pristine hot tub. The painting appears in the new exhibition at Art & Practice, “A Shape That Stands Up,” a painting show that’s perhaps overfull and populated by too many names we already know, but still genuinely sensuous. One painting by L.A.-based Henry Taylor shows a woman with a blank face — she has no features, just an all-brown oval for a head — turning back to stare out at us.