Censored Libyan imagery converted into striated binary distortions. Jehad Nga in the side room at Bonni Benrubi.
The physical and spatial disruption of multi-colored stickers. Jason Evans at Aperture Gallery.
Sweaty, big hair, club girl glamour. Keizo Kitajima in the NYC c1985 summer group show at ClampArt.
Nude holding a loaf of Wonder bread isn’t a phrase I get to use very often. Brad Elterman at Marlborough Chelsea
Cut holes threaten an abandoned painting – a recent John Divola in the Endless Bummer II group show at Marlborough Chelsea.
Mount Fuji seen through a jumble of colliding angular planes. Satomi Shirai in a group show at Lesley Heller Workspace.
The subdued elegant side of Arne Svenson’s controversial telephoto voyeurism, at Julie Saul Gallery.
Signs that no longer provide meaning – blanked out, empty, and illegible. Mark Woods at Newman Popiashvili Gallery.
Elemental circular forms, covered in textural drips and residue. Erin Shirreff at Lisa Cooley.
Richly organic, maze-like mud spirals by Ana Mendieta. At Galerie Leong.
Merce Cunningham dancers as calligraphic notes on a musical score. Jaye Rhee at Doosan Gallery.
Ross Racine’s Photoshop aerials of intricately plotted fictional suburbs. Just closed at Front Room Gallery.
Grids of personal items photographed in the deadpan style of Ebay postings. Moyra Davey/Jason Simon at Miguel Abreu.
Thinking about a connection between Italian Futurism (Giacomo Balla at the Museum of Modern Art) and digital glitch photography.
Lucas Blalock’s elusive, spatially inconclusive layers of jittered wallpaper. In a group show at Wallspace.
A new Alfred Leslie portrait, pushing the edges of the painting/software/photo boundary. In a group show at C24 Gallery.
Gregory Crewdson’s lonely, rainswept taxi lot (with train tracks). Smartly paired with O. Winston Link at Danziger.
An elegantly jarring anatomical nude hybrid by John Stezaker at Petzel Gallery.
Playing mahjong in masks and snorkels. Yang Yi’s melancholy submerged city vignettes at Galerie Richard.
Gestural, intimate darkroom abstraction, solarized and striated. Anthony Pearson at Marianne Boesky Gallery.
