A shadowed apron and stressed fingers on Thanksgiving day. Frances F. Denny at ClampArt.

An extravagant male butterfly and an imposing screw. Steven Arnold at Daniel Cooney Fine Art.

Hanging out with a group of love dolls. Stacy Leigh at Castor Gallery.

The colorful palette of Spanish racing pigeons. Ricardo Cases at Dillon Gallery.

Architecture/construction shards in a dense panorama. Ilit Azoulay at Andrea Meislin.

The inhospitable combination of skin and snow. Ryan McGinley at Team Gallery.

The expressive use of bleach and chemicals. Brea Souders at Bruce Silverstein.

Channeling the delusional primness of Tipper Gore. Martha Wilson at PPOW.

Bundles, suitcases, a dog, and a wary post-bombing stare. John Florea at Steven Kasher.

The sinuous tones of stacked bottle forms. Dawid in the Callahan, Dawid, Sugimoto group show at Pace/MacGill.

Undulations in textured green leather. Lucas Blalock in the Walks and displacements group show at Andrew Kreps.

Exploring formal isolation. Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1970s Polaroids at Sean Kelly.

Lightbox recreations of the stolen Gardner artworks. Kota Ezawa at Murray Guy.

An empty road flanked by white nothingness. Jungjin Lee at Howard Greenberg.

Climbing through a hole in the picture. Gina Osterloh at Higher Pictures.

Cement as a substrate for the fleeting. Josh Tonsfeldt at Simon Preston.

Erasing a hand with rocks. Dennis Oppenheim in the Passage group show at Alexander Gray Associates.

Testing the pH of famous scientists. Diemut Strebe at Ronald Feldman.

Steely eyes and bloody hands. Shirin Neshat in the 11/20 Photography auction at Auctionata.

The evocative/grotesque form of a dried squid. Hollis Frampton at Room East.