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Jeff Bailey Gallery is pleased to present Amy Pleasant: Blink, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings and sculpture.

Pleasant's new work focuses on the body’s shape and contours. Silhouetted forms evoke everyday motions and gestures. Facial profiles suggest turning heads. Bent legs show the body in repose.

The figure is broken down into constituent parts, almost like fragments from statuary or remnants from an archeological dig. Time at once passes and stands still, is captured and is fleeting.

The exhibition's title, Blink, refers to two immediacies: that which Pleasant employs …