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Dasha Shishkin's dense drawings on Mylar depict social life through an insistent impressionistic atmosphere that is both enlivening and obfuscating. Her figures seem submerged in the miasma of subconscious activity simultaneous to daily interactions. Harkening back to the antics of artists such as Toulouse Lautrec, wherein excesses of nightlife and social life spill over into caricature, Shishkin's highly colorized scenes hover between past and present / real and liminal spaces. The characters grin, as if to confirm that we are in on the secret – the scene is not real and everything …