Sharon Butler reviews Andrea Belag: Ghost Writer at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, on view through October 15, 2017.

Butler writes: “In [Belag’s] older work, the deep color triggered an inchoate emotional response, but now simple shapes and lines, truncated brushstrokes rendered in lively color, float on the picture plane. Many of the new paintings leave large sections of unpainted panel visible, creating a shallower space for her whimsical figures to inhabit. The work no longer seems like a manifestation of murky interiority, but has become more outward looking and in the process acquired greater clarity.”