Intensely emotional self modification. Carlos Motta at PPOW.

Turning window blind shadows into elegant hard edged abstraction. Kathy Ryan at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

A mute frog’s supply of dangling children. Eva Koťátková at Maccarone.

Obscuring with emphatically gestural overpainting. Arnulf Rainer in the 5/24 sale at InnAuction.

Dancers in a gently tangled pile. Nir Arieli at Daniel Cooney Fine Art.

The intricate carvings of a Cairo minaret. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey at MacDougall’s.

Intimacy and chartreuse chewing gum. Olivia Bee at Aperture.

Turning a shoji screen into an image grid. Kansuke Yamamoto at Taka Ishii Gallery.

Sound waves as lenticular ripples on water. Martin Klimas at Foley Galley.

Removed devices and being alone together. Eric Pickersgill at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Building textures: brick, slatted wood, burnished steel, evergreen. Frank Gohlke in the 5/13 Fine Prints & Photographs sale at Skinner.

The Baroque chiaroscuro of a lounging male stripper. Jan Rattia at ClampArt.

Everyday receipts – scanned, colorized, mailed. Moyra Davey at Murray Guy.

Contemplating an open mouthed scream. Eikoh Hosoe at Envoy Enterprises.

Pulling skyward from a backhoe bucket. Li Wei in the Digital Figurative Photography? group show at Galerie Richard.

Sleek favelas of modern architecture. Dionisio González in the Digital Figurative Photography? group show at Galerie Richard.

A hidden stash spot behind a photograph. Brad Troemel at Feuer/Mesler.

Transparent colors like a loose string of beads. Liz Nielsen at Danziger Gallery.

Painting bodies and abstracting gender. Eunice Golden in the Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language group show at Mitchell Algus.

Tracing plant form curvature with drawn circles. Gerald Hayes in the Concept, Performance, Documentation, Language group show at Mitchell Algus.