“Over the past two or three years,” says Hernan Bas, “I’ve begun to notice an odd theme emerging among the paintings in the studio. I realized that what the characters were engaging in could easily pass as being a visualization of the work of a conceptual artist.” Bas is well known for his paintings of waifs and dandies, which often inhabit alien worlds. He was born in Miami, but during his childhood his family moved upstate to a small town, which he’s described as “kind of like living in The X-Files.” Bas spotted U.F.O.s and Bigfoots as a boy, and ghosts populate his canvases. He now lives in Detroit, a move made in 2010 because he enjoys the “weirdness of the city.” This exhibition presents his latest paintings, which picture characters engaging in Bas’s version of conceptual art. —Elena Clavarino