A ghostly foot in a stretched auction preview. A night view of Louise Lawler on the High Line billboard.

The brash intensity of glowing filaments. Amanda Means in the In an Instant: Polaroids sale at Artnet Auctions.

Experiments with geometric in-camera masking. Hannah Whitaker in the Fixed Unknowns show at Taymour Grahne.

Large scale black and white abstraction. Shirana Shahbazi in the Fixed Unknowns show at Taymour Grahne.

An outstretched hand unbalances a portrait. Tim Freccia at Ricco/Maresca.

Staircase as sumptuous geometry exercise. Tina Modotti in the second floor hallway at the Met.

Interrupted by strawberry shortcake. Takashi Yasumura in the front room at Yossi Milo.

Spraying the Windex right at us. Marina Pinsky in the Displayed group show at Anton Kern.

Chanel bracelets and shiny mackerel. Roe Ethridge in the Displayed group show at Anton Kern.

A monumental wall of boldly colorful mushrooms. Fischli & Weiss at Matthew Marks.

Rustling grasses and sliced color. Chloe Sells in the LandMark group show at Julie Saul.

Then and now in the Meatpacking district. Brian Rose at Dillon Gallery.

A typology of hair styles, with a nod to Ojeikere. Awol Erizku at Hasted Kraeutler.

Linear abstraction up close. A detail from Niko Luoma, in the summer group show at Bryce Wolkowitz.

A brash still life of 99 cent store plastic flowers. Melissa Eder in the Summer Open group show at Aperture.

Landscape split into reflected/refracted geometries. Anastasia Samoylova in the Summer Open group show at Aperture.

The all over visual assault of Chinese fast food. Anja Hitzenberger in the Summer Open group show at Aperture.

A graveside array of artificial flowers. David Allee at Morgan Lehman.

Overlapped echoes of water droplet rings. Adam Fuss in the Splash! sale at Artnet Auctions.

The flat rectangles of foundation construction. Lewis Baltz in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.