Using people as the subjects of colorful and haunting paintings, Jordin Isip’s incorporation of scraps of litter, trash, discarded magazines and other detritus of New York City streets results in images that are as much about the art-making process than the allegories he presents. Though these narratives are based on personal experiences and growing obsessions, they retain an ambiguity through symbolism and multiple layers of meaning leaving them open to interpretation by the viewer. Isip’s iconic figures ——simultaneously primitive and urban ——tell of the human condition: conflicted, chaotic and insular.