A “perihelion” is the point in a planet’s orbit when it comes closest to a star. For the painter Łukasz Stokłosa, who is based in Poland, it’s also an idée fixe for his first solo show in the United States. Stokłosa’s stars range from fallen historical figures such as Marie Antoinette and Napoleon to contemporary actors such as Jennifer Jason Leigh and Ben Chaplin, who were both in the 1997 film of Henry James’s Washington Square. Stokłosa travels across Europe to find what remains of these forces—lifeless palaces, dusty apartments, and abandoned gardens—using oil paint to show where gold glows in the dim light, a relic of a bright past. —Clara Molot