Outside and Aching offers the viewer a voyeuristic experience of the city and the pleasures New Yorkers indulge in. Influenced by his background in architecture, Villafañe presents private spaces rendered in section-cut type depictions of interiors, allowing the viewer to pry in on unfolding scenes of fantasy and deviance, themes the artist devotes much of his imagery to. While one may habitually walk the streets of New York unphased by its daily eccentricities, here, the artist forces us to engage and further yet, trespass. Provocatively lifted skirts, ambiguously interwoven limbs, and sensually exposed flesh all testify to the artist’s familiarly ambiguous visual language. The play of entangled bodies imbues these paintings with implicit eroticism and invites the viewer into the space as willing participant, following the limbs of one figure only to be guided to another, losing oneself in the compositions much like one loses oneself in the city. These arranged and rearranged bodies create a system of bodily disarticulation whose unstable nature only works to destabilize the viewer. — @adelaidepacton @atelierpacton Currently showing this painting at @atmgallery.nyc 💅🏼 Stop by before Oct 9 to catch the show. Open Weds - Sun 12-6pm Lead Me To The Cross, 2022 Oil on Linen 30 x 60 inches . . . . #nyc #atm #nycgallery #chinatownnyc #oiloncanvas #jeanpierrevillafane #artgallerynyc #atmgallery