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Rendered in colored pencil on black-gessoed paper, Roth’s drawings evoke the phantasmic brilliance and irrational spatiality of X-ray imaging, inviting viewers to consider the possibilities of what once was or what hides beneath the surface. In her most recent body of work, meticulously framed and multilayered compositions superimpose enigmatic portraits of everyday life onto one another, bringing together a tableau of transparencies through which to explore various modes of reflection.

Stacks of pamphlets and overgrown house plants comprise several of Roth’s portraits and idiosyncratic …