“Sometimes a painting isn’t what I’m trying to say, but a mirror for whatever people want to project on it,” Noelia Towers told us recently of her recent body of work, Night Visions. “I like themes of departure, solitude, loss, despair, and instability, and I have found that seeing a figure facing the opposite way works quite well for me.” Towers is a painter of something quite uneasy, a tension that is something of a universal fear, or omnipresent pressure. The Barcelona-born, Chicago-based artist doesn’t seem afraid in her role as the conductor, and gives her subjects both a sense of power in their containment, a fighter’s chance, a cinematic resilience.