Justine Neuberger lives and works in New York. Her paintings offer us a look at indeterminate social encounters, buttressed by fragmentary architecture and improbable landscapes. Her smeary bodies, often engaged in communal celebration beholden to long-departed social conventions, belong to a series of interconnected narrative threads she culls from fiction and friends alike. Enamored equally with Renaissance masters and the unsung heroes of American folklore and vernacular art, Neuberger frequently depicts nature as a kind of destablized arabesque, situated curiously between the landscape, the picture plane, and some “other” register. She has exhibited widely, with recent solo exhibitions at Clima, Milan, and 15 Orient, NY.