Alan Turner

With a career spanning 40 years, Turner has pursued a kind of metaphysical realism in which the relationship between psychology and perception serves as the unifying theme of a stylistically shifting oeuvre. Master revivalist Mitchell Algus resurfaces two bodies of Turner’s work here: a group of spooky paintings featuring faces morphed into torsos, and vice versa; and a series of graphite-on-canvas images of cardboard boxes used by the homeless for shelter. While more deadpan than surreal, the latter possesses same haunted quality of his efforts overall.