Lookalike paired portraits of young women and Egyptian statues. Lorraine O’Grady in Skin Trade at PPOW Gallery.
Quirky late 60s conceptualism – Robert Kinmont’s favorite dirt roads portfolio at Alexander and Bonin.
Nude lost in the textural, all-over patterns of indoor plants. Scott Alario in the RISD MFA show at ClampArt.
Cinematic diptychs with elusive, enigmatic narratives. Mac Adams at Elizabeth Dee.
Typology of overgrown, ivy-covered tombstones. Lisa Tan in the summer group show at Simon Preston.
Rosalind Solomon’s honest/tender 1980s “Portraits in the Time of AIDS” project, revisited at Bruce Silverstein.
Alfredo Jaar’s haunting portfolio of Robben Island prison scenes, in the group show at Peter Blum.
The ruins of Pripyat (‘Atomgrad’) measured by an O’Sullivan-like yardstick. Jane and Louise Wilson at 303 Gallery.
Video interviews explore the lost pathways of Arab photographic history/memory. Akram Zaatari at MoMA.
The dark despair of mourning. María Magdalena Campos-Pons in the summer group show at Stephan Stoyanov Gallery.
Photocollage of gold bunting, palm fronds, and a floral dress. Thrush Holmes in the summer group show at Feature Inc.
Fishing in the hole of a bagel with cream cheese. Christopher Boffoli at Winston Wächter Fine Art.
Optimism in photographic edition sizing.
A layered world of plywood, pressboard, wooden boxes and naked limbs. Mika Rottenberg in the Jew York show at Untitled.
Modified star charts where constellations are replaced by images of animal fur. Demetrius Oliver at Louis B. James.
Sol LeWitt’s photo mural of graffiti and urban signage. Outside on the street at the Mondrian SoHo.
Impossibly perched ore sample with dangling golden charm chains. Shamus Clisset at On Stellar Rays.
Lots of Wojnarowicz’ Arthur Rimbaud in New York later prints in the Truck Baby summer group show at Rachel Uffner Gallery.
Cuban seniors and swirling gestural paint decorate decaying Havana buildings. JR and José Parlá at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.
Youth as performance – girls and their look-alike American Girl dolls. Ilona Szwarc at Foley Gallery.
