Chapter NY is excited to present Psychic Nerve, Mira Dancy’s third exhibition with the gallery and first at 60 Walker Street.

Derived from personal and intuitive sources, Dancy’s practice engages and recalibrates expressions of the female body. Across multiple mediums—painting, mural, drawing, and neon—the artist builds densely layered compositions from which her mythic figures emerge.

For Psychic Nerve, Dancy presents a new series of paintings that meditate upon a continually expanding sense of self. Following the artist’s move from New York City to the mountains outside of Los Angeles, a changed landscape permeates this newest body of work. Her splintered forms and figures no longer tether to jagged and imposing architecture; instead, they combine with light and air visualized through super-chroma prismatic patterning that reverberates and emanates outward.

Each painting is conceived from the vantage point of another painting, as if the paintings themselves could see—or feel—their companions. They serve as doors or passageways, building sequentially and concurrently in conversation with one another and invoking a pervasive sense of interconnectivity. Dancy echoes this sensation in the articulation of her female figures who bask in their collective visibility. Together, all the works in the exhibition inhabit an exact moment of jolting experience and shared thought. They radiate an electric glow of self-realization into the external world.

Mira Dancy (b. 1979) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her MFA in painting from Columbia University. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Mexico City, MX; JOAN, Los Angeles, CA; Lumber Room, Portland, OR; Yuz Foundation, Shanghai, CN; Chapter NY, New York, NY; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Fed Galleries, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, MI; Galleria Monica De Cardenes, Zouz, CH; König Gallerie, Berlin, DE; Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; among others.