Ominous crime scene flowers. Alejandro Cesarco in The Secret Life group show at Murray Guy.

Using incisions to disassemble a test track photo. David Maljkovic at Metro Pictures.

A dizzying torrent of photocollage letters. Olaf Breuning at Metro Pictures.

Slashing layers of reused imagery. Michele Abeles on a billboard across from the Whitney.

Complex angles/shadows in a 19th century farmyard. Paul Emile Mares from the collection of Jay McDonald at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.

Disorienting two frame simultaneity. Barbara Probst in the Passing Leap group show at Hauser & Wirth.

Physical depth in a double layered abstraction. Sara VanDerBeek in the Passing Leap group show at Hauser & Wirth.

Conflicting cast shadows interrupting a grid. John Houck in the Passing Leap group show at Hauser & Wirth.

Layered digital collage on hanging cotton. Ana Cardoso in the Old Truths & New Lies group show at Rachel Uffner.

Cast shadows across a diorama library. Early James Casebere in the By the Book group show at Sean Kelly.

A blasting underwater punch from Muhammad Ali. Flip Schulke at Keith De Lellis.

The contrasting elegance and eagerness of Jude Law and Matt Damon. Brigitte Lacombe at Phillips.

Ruskaia by Luc Choquer in the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum.

Ocima: Svet Kolem Nasby by Miroslav Hak (1947) in the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum.

Using a platform to equalize the heights. Leon Borensztein at Foley Gallery.

The private tenderness of 1980s era same-sex couples. Sage Sohier at Foley Gallery.

Reintroducing a figure caught by GSV back into the city. Paolo Cirio in the Profiled group show at Apexart.

Female body as stone fetish. Pinar Yolaçan in the Soft Core group show at Invisible-Exports.

X-rays of memory jugs as gatherings of associations. Terry Adkins in the Human Ecology 101 group show at Ronald Feldman.

A typology of Darwin’s pigeons. Brandon Ballengée in the Human Ecology 101 group show at Ronald Feldman.