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.
Keith Smith’s jittering, shape-driven bus composite. At Bruce Silverstein through 6/1.
Bloody presidential politics in 1980s Panama, as covered by Ron Haviv. In a student curated show at Milbrook School.
Shadowy dappled light portrait of a blind schoolboy in Sierra Leone. Tim Hetherington at Yossi Milo.
Massive aspirational branding as a backdrop for everyday urban life. Natan Dvir at Anastasia Photo.
Bert Stern shooting David Bailey shooting Veruschka for Vogue in 1961. At Staley-Wise.
A kissing couple snapshot digitally split and restitched. Nikolai Ishchuk in the project room at Denny Gallery.
An elegantly jumbled kitchen sink of still life forms and shadows. Margaret Watkins at Robert Mann.
Reinterpreting found 19th century glass plate negatives of Venetian antiques. F&D Cartier at Hous Projects.
Tiny figures dwarfed by the massive reflective presence of the Echo satellite/balloon. Exhibition Space at Apexart.
Everyday Iraq seen through the porthole of a Humvee. Great intruding stair-step steel bar. Benjamin Lowy at Gasser Grunert.
The male body iteratively fragmented into spheres, cones, and flat abstractions. Duane Michals at DC Moore Gallery.
Melissa Cacciola’s modern military tintypes at United Photo Industries are a smart foil for the Met’s Civil War show.
A few photography highlights from NYC 1993 exhibit at the New Museum (3 of 3) – Gillian Wearing’s I’m desperate
A few photography highlights from NYC 1993 exhibit at the New Museum (2 of 3) – Zoe Leonard’s anatomical model
