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.

The spinning geometries of an 1890s harmonograph drawing. Frederick Evans in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.

The etching-like gestures of a scratched drawing cliché verre. Eugene Delacroix in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.

An intricately detailed camera lucida drawing of 1820s Turin. John Herschel in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.

A melting pot combination of hanging drapery, red fingernails, and a white cockatoo. Farah Al Qasimi on an NYC bus shelter (via Public Art Fund.)

Splicing together Elsa dolls, remixing handmade details and individualized desires. Loretta Fahrenholz at Company Gallery.

Watery reflections of Venetian boats fragmented into painterly gestures. Melissa McGill at TOTAH Gallery.

Contact sheet choices for Biggie Smalls in a crown. Barron Claiborne in CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop at the ICP.

The Pharcyde turning the corner with high energy. Mark Humphrey in CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop at the ICP.