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.

Sequential rotation of spherical models. Sharon Lockhart in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

Compositional complexity in sumptuous platinum. Jan Groover in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

Mid-1960s experimental photocopying. Barbara T. Smith in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

Mixing interior glow and soft streetlight glare. Henry Wessel in the A Machinery for Living group show at Petzel.

A lightbox waterfall with a bright, streaming color overlay. Matthew Brandt in The Fifth Season at James Cohan.

A typology of ghostly outfield wall collisions. Kate Joyce at Rick Wester.

A thicket of interlocked limbs. Hans Breder in the Soft Matter group show at Wallspace.

Interrupting a portrait with a table lamp. Marlo Pascual in the Never Look Back When Leaving group show at Casey Kaplan.

Ethereal cyanotype doves as echoes of Tiananmen. Zhang Dali at Klein Sun.

Flared flames licking dated interiors. Alessandra Spranzi in the More Material group show at Salon 94 Bowery.

Enigmatic flash lit blue gloves. Sandy Kim in the More Material group show at Salon 94 Bowery.