Full length nudes in the tradition of Lucas Cranach. Daniel Handal at ClampArt.

Reversing the dynamics of the paired nude. Pixy Liao in the On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography group show at C24 Gallery.

Orange day lilies and a scabbed elbow. Marie Tomanova in the On the Inside: Portraiture Through Photography group show at C24 Gallery.

Wrapping rough sculptural planes around archival photographs of Jamaican dancehall culture. Akeem Smith at Red Bull Arts New York.

Undulating rock formations made physical with two colors of concrete and layered overprinting. Letha Wilson in the Vantage Points group show at GRIMM Gallery.

Expressively unlocking serial layers of ancient geometry. Claudia Peña Salinas in the Vantage Points group show at GRIMM Gallery.

Sensual 1980s era advertising, amplified by doubling and magenta tinting. Vikky Alexander at Downs & Ross.

Collaging a painted eye over inverted antiquity. Rachel Libeskind at Signs and Symbols.

Extending a delicate photogram-like process with rich layers of pigment. Sam Falls at 303 Gallery.

Using the artist’s own face to make performative Xerox copies. Paolo Bruscky in the Archaeologies of the Selfie group show at Galeria Nara Roesler.

The spots of reflected headlights imposing time on a Michelangelo sculpture. Milton Machado in the Archaeologies of the Selfie group show at Galeria Nara Roesler.

A wooded scene fogged with enveloping dark grey overpainting. Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery.

Shadows cast through glass crystals creating visual hieroglyphics. Sarah Charlesworth at Printed Matter.

Pulling a snowy scene into a veil of digital drips and elongations. Sandra Kantanen at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.

Matching pots of colored paint with a Kodak Gray Scale chart. Sarah Charlesworth, in a paired show with Sherrie Levine and Bernd and Hilla Becher, at Paula Cooper Gallery.

Using layered collage and delicate overpainting to expressively re-interpret images of the artist’s mother. Sebastiaan Bremer at Edwynn Houk Gallery.

Watery reflections of energetically jumbled city lights. David Attie in the New York Stories group show at Keith de Lellis Gallery.

Hands emphatically raising a torch and squeezing a shutter release. Tseng Kwong Chi at Yancey Richardson Gallery.

A jitteringly surreal face split by multiple exposures. Clarence John Laughlin in the Body of Evidence group show at Laurence Miller Gallery.

Bold leaf forms in cyanotype blue. Anna Atkins in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.