An artist’s first solo exhibition of paintings in the United States doesn’t happen every day. That’s why Alison Friend’s solo exhibition While You Were Out… at Harman Projects in Los Angeles is a remarkable debut. Blending humor and levity with the subdued palette and technique of the Old European Masters, Friend’s new series of oil paintings capture the clandestine lives of our precocious and loveable cats and dogs who smoke, drink, read, and eat when we’re not looking.