Lori Earley's new paintings for this solo show at Opera Gallery are heirs to the historical artistic tradition of courtly portraiture, greeting Ingrès' countesses and the Medici women with a contemporary swagger. Her technically advanced, emotionally fraught style uses oils and graphite to create rich, refractive surfaces and light-filled depths out of which emerge coltish, long-limbed Goth priestesses. The pensive, pouty and self-possessed bearing of Earley's pop-culture royalty and the regal ambivalence with which they greet admirers hints at a neo-Victorian mystery and wildness lurking beneath all this hyper-stylisation and exaggerated beauty.