Gary Hume's new exhibition at Matthew Marks's West 24th Street space pairs 16 enamel-on-aluminum paintings with hand-painted, site-specific murals — and the murals carry the weight of a story that made headlines three years ago. In 2023, cheerful cartoon murals Hume had painted for a UK immigration centre for children were painted over after an immigration minister's office judged them "too welcoming." The artist has recreated the spirit of those erased cartoons in the new gallery murals, which wrap the Chelsea room behind his new paintings. The gesture turns the exhibition into a quiet but unmistakable rejoinder to the act of erasure. The paintings themselves continue Hume's long engagement with enamel on aluminum, a signature combination since the 1990s in which glossy industrial surfaces carry forms drawn from memory, the figure, and the everyday. Installed against the hand-painted walls, the works set his characteristic refinement against the looser, more exuberant vocabulary of the murals. On view from 10 September to 24 October, the show arrives as one of the more politically charged presentations of the autumn New York season without resorting to sloganeering: the controversy is embedded in the decoration itself, and viewers encounter it the way one encounters architecture — only slowly realizing what the walls are saying.