A layered composition of red pillows, a mirror, and hula-hooping on grandma’s bed. Katrina del Mar at Participant.
The wispy, twisting, black lines of doubled rose twigs. Dirk Stewen at Tanya Bonakdar.
Sculptural combinations of photographic scrims, probing transparency and reflection. Sabine Hornig at Tanya Bonakdar.
Fragmented, interrupted, portrait reflections in black and white by Hrvoje Slovenc at Helac Fine Art.
Back of the cab video short: Ryan McGinley’s red headed city runner.
Book jacket photography – an Adam Fuss water baby photogram.
A layered Martin Parr-ish tornado of ladies and cameras by Mónika Sziládi in the all Yale group show at Garis & Hahn.
Clustered rectangular build ups/cut outs raise/excavate the picture plane. Ishmael Randall Weeks at Eleven Rivington.
Jessica Labatte’s cut paper photo abstractions are like angular flattened origami. In the back gallery at Horton Gallery.
Picked up back issues of Toilet Paper mag at Printed Matter last week. Surreal, subversive, impolite, and brilliant.
Zachary Norman’s floating geometric solids in the Color Shift group show at Mixed Greens.
Barbara Bloom’s early 1980s fake travel posters are still wonderfully slippery and arch. At Tracy Williams.
David LaChapelle’s vandalized wax museum heads in cardboard boxes. At Paul Kasmin Gallery.
This aerial image from Edward Burtynsky’s recent pivot irrigation series reminds me of a circuit board. At Howard Greenberg.
Barb Choit’s faded shop window hairstyle charts at Rachel Uffner.
Ken Fandell’s slashing, abstract, laser light photographs at Tomlinson Kong.
Dark, wispy 1990s smoke ring abstractions by Donald Sultan. In the back room at Janet Borden.
A nostalgically bright and kitchy world in super wide Kodak colorama prints at the NY Transit Museum in Grand Central Terminal.
Wish there was more photography (just this one set) at Hank Willis Thomas’ vibrantly shrewd show at Jack Shainman.
A Crewdson-esque young boy outside an eerie backlit garden gate. Joseph Cultice at Baang + Burne.
