Like browsing through a personal library, an artist-curated exhibition can provide as much insight into that artist’s practice as a solo presentation. In 2016, Matthew Ronay organized Empirical Intuitive Absorption at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, pairing his intricately carved and impossibly supple basswood sculptures with paintings by Serge Charchoune and Fernand Léger, earthen ceramics by Graham Marks, and Terry Riley’s minimalist drones. The exhibition expanded upon and contextualized the artist’s interest in the formal and spiritual concerns that connect various modes of abstraction across temporalities. Ronay distilled this vision for his recent solo exhibition Betrayals of and by the Body at Casey Kaplan in New York, showcasing a series of distinct but interconnected basswood sculptures that give form to the abstract forces and processes that operate within and between all bodies of matter.