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.

Altering profiles with black makeup. DAS INSTITUT in the No Drink No Talk Just Beautiful group show at On Stellar Rays.

Tacking up a vinyl collage with a penny. A.K. Burns in the Fixing a Hole group show at Koenig & Clinton.

A telescoping view of cinder blocks. Nancy Holt in the Fixing a Hole group show at Koenig & Clinton.

Seaside scenes as geometric abstractions. Alexandre da Cunha in the Fixing a Hole group show at Koenig & Clinton.

Jiggled neon and circuit diagrams. Roswell Angier in the Eclectic group show at Gitterman Gallery.

A typology of beetles and bubbles. Rivane Neuenschwander in The Bigger Picture at Tanya Bonakdar.

A series of falling objects. Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler in The Bigger Picture at Tanya Bonakdar.

Basquiat in his studio. Tseng Kwong Chi in the Face Time sale at Artnet Auctions.

Decaying newspaper blanketing the forest floor. Rosemary Laing at Galerie Lelong.

Visual uncertainty via lenticular combination. Melanie Gilligan at Bortolami.