For the show, Krueger’s innovative installation methods and virtuosic technical ability can often obscure the highly personal and emotional subject matter that pervades his work. In each painting, the artist depicts a complex autobiographical moment or feeling, though does so self-consciously via the female form.

In Small Wonder, a woman with a shaved head breast feeds a packaged loaf of Wonder Bread, symbolizing a fear of being able to provide adequate sustenance to oneself and one’s family, a problem that has become familiar to people in every industry during the current economic climate, but one that has always characterized the life of the artist.

Many of Krueger’s paintings are initially rendered on a stretched canvas and subsequently cut out and adhered to a thin sheet of PVC plastic. These pieces are then installed directly on the gallery wall, creating a dynamic tromp l’oeil effect in which the image appears more autonomous than it would if it were it confined to a traditional stretched canvas.

The artist will also feature a piece in which the figurative painting is mounted to a free-standing plywood silhouette, inviting visitors to pose with it while assuming the identity of the painted subject.