Jorge Queiroz at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

Lisbon-based artist Jorge Queiroz barely allows a human figure to materialize in this psychologically intense painting, but his indistinct human presence turns the abstract shapes in the background into suggestions of places and objects of significance.  (At Chelsea’s Sikkema Jenkins & Co through March 2nd).  

Jorge Queiroz, Waiting on the Room, oil stick and vinyl ink on canvas, 2012.