Joey Healey: The Balancing Act presents paintings that treat New York City as sketchbook — its graffiti, painted over and re-emerging, serving as a model for Healey's own layered surfaces where fragments of past transformations remain visible. Heavy materiality accumulates across the canvas, gold paint from earlier passages shimmering beneath subsequent layers. Drawing on Abstract Expressionism, European Modernism, and ancient visual languages from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the art of the Americas, Healey constructs a new visual dictionary in which symbols simplify complex human relations. The works propose that existence is neither black nor white but an infinite spectrum of colors in between.