A painting my Sylvia Plimack Mangold may be a large beige blank with a yardstick drawn up one side. It may be graph paper positioned within a frame, or a rendering of the tiles on the floor, or a landscape painted like a window in a large piece of Strathmore paper. “A painted ruler would measure things,” Mangold has explained, “the painted tiles would measure space. This was diagramming how one’s perspective determines perception.” Her latest exhibition focuses on objects in her studio—paper, tape, instruments of measurement—and lets them reverberate in the distance between the literal and the metaphorical. —Lucy Horowitz