Wesley Pierre

In “Catharsis,” an entertaining solo show, the young oil painter Wesley Pierre gives us human figures on the move, even when that movement is mostly taking place in their minds.

The exhibition presents Pierre as a face-shuffler interested in the effects of time, change, and precarity on the human psyche.

The amalgamated heads and bodies of his subjects contain many expressions and postures at once, but there’s a common weightiness about all of them. His canvases radiate a deep feeling of restlessness and unease. Possibility, too.