Suzan Pitt likes to play. Reveling in the sticky corners of the psychosexual imaginary, she wrangles with disobedient bodies and indomitable desires. Trained as a painter in the 1960s, the American artist is known for a dreamlike form of animated surrealism, in which unconscious pleasures come, without blushing, to light.

Winking metaphors for our coarse anatomies emerge across two of...