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Through a new series of highly graphic and colorful paintings, Emily Ludwig Shaffer engages her distinctive hard-edge aesthetic and architectural sense of composition in an immersive examination of the sensorial potential of painting. Her clear lines, solid color blocks, velvety layers of paint, and imperceptible brushwork give shape to a singular interpretation of an art-historical trope: the painterly and allegorical representation of the five senses. Building upon Shaffer’s long-standing visual exploration of the relationship between bodies and space, Touch, Sound, Smell, Taste (all 2024) …