The show at Amos Eno Gallery, among the many housed on the crowded cluster at 56 Bogart, carries on the ruminative tradition that Presman himself has championed since he co-founded the gallery on Wooster Street in Soho 45 years ago. (The gallery takes its name from the late 19th century real estate developer who had once owned the original Soho building.)  It was there, in fact, where he began with a 1975 show simply called “Untitled.” More recent show titles have posed more sprawling questions, such as 2018’s “What Happens When You Die and When You’re Born” and 2001’s “Initial Human Encounters and the Two Categories of Evil.”

“The goal is to bring back integrity and dignity to earthly humanity,” Presman tells Bushwick Daily about his latest collection of visual art pieces, which center primarily on a series of abstract wax pastels that appear on what he describes as an extremely ordinary classroom blackboard. These are given simple, blunt names and depict ghostly vestiges of the natural world reduced to its elements.