Jonny Negron’s paintings whisk endemic scenarios into spheres of suspended artifice. For nearly two decades, the self-taught artist has developed an instinct for mise-en-scènes that depict an array of social intercourses, from portraits of individuals appended with symbolic matter to groupings of figures communing in revelrous overflow. Often, these social intercourses make way for the staging of objects and perishables that are cast off from these transient relational exchanges. Within these relational configurations, Negron’s work expresses the way in which diametric, emotive forces congeal under the headings of personality, ego and communal exchange.