Rutene Merk, “Sprites”

Rutene Merk, a Lithuanian artist who lives and works in Munich, Germany, marks her U.S. solo debut with portrait paintings of subjects who looked like they stepped out of a video game circa 2000—which is to say weirdly uncanny and disarticulated at the same time. While the show title seems to allude to fairy tale characters, it's also a reference to a term used in computer graphics to describe the overlay of figure to background.