The Italian painter Domenico Gnoli died of cancer at 36, in 1970, and yet his artistic influence continues. Gnoli was born in Rome, studied drawing in his teens with the painter Carlo Alberto Petrucci, and then worked as an illustrator for Sports Illustrated and Life before establishing himself as an artist. Gnoli’s paintings feature everyday objects—beds, bathtubs, brassieres—but in fragments, scaled large. “I isolate and represent,” he said. As a result, the images are secretive and unsettling. An exhibition of Gnoli’s work in America, the largest in over 50 years, now comes together at Levy Gorvy Dayan. Paintings, drawings, and letters celebrate a brief yet innovative career. —Maggie Turner