Emily Eveleth has pointed out that the object in her painting is not necessarily the subject, a consideration that continues to apply to her ongoing series of donut paintings at Miles McEnery Gallery. Though more or less obviously desserts, Eveleth’s donuts are lit to suggest intimate bodies or ooze jam in ways that hint at trauma. Titled after books published by the Parisian firm Olympia Press and shaped to resemble book format, each canvas speaks volumes. (On view in Chelsea through Nov 27th.)
