Feet and hands in high heels, posed over the kitchen sink. Jimmy DeSana at PPOW Gallery.
The everyday dark angles of legs and bare feet. Gabriel Branco in the Six Artists group show at Mendes Wood DM.
The disorienting illusion of Portuguese stone paving tiles upset by underground movements. Ellie Ga in Looking Back/The 13th White Columns Annual at White Columns.
Organizing apples and chestnuts into the chemical structure of a silver iodine molecule. Simon Starling at Casey Kaplan Gallery.
The artifice of Las Vegas embodied in the glance of a lifelike showgirl mannequin. Jeff Burton at Casey Kaplan Gallery.
Hybrid female faces, with a nod to the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls album cover. Eva Lake in the Paper Power group show at Frosch & Co.
Taking flight amid a swarm of toy fighter planes. Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart in the Out of Joint group show at New Collectors.
Tossed gloves like ghostly floating hands. Guy Bolongaro in the Out of Joint group show at New Collectors.
Constructing a new cowboy myth from snakeskin boots, an African mask, and scattered dice. Awol Erizku in the Helmut Lang Seen by Antwaun Sargent: YOBWOC show at Hannah Traore Gallery.
Iteratively breaking down the structure of a tree, from photograph, to drawing, to charted grid. Charles Gaines at Hauser & Wirth.
Echoing the curve of a male nude with expressive overpainting. Ariane Lopez-Huici at Slag Gallery.
A bag of condoms, seen in the tactile lushness of platinum. Ayanna Dozier at Microscope Gallery.
Abandoned torii gates at the once far edges of the imperial Japanese empire. Motoyuki Shitamichi at Alison Bradley Projects.
Trees covered in garbage near a California squatters’ camp, with stars and fire punctuating the post-apocalyptic night. Jean-François Bouchard at Arsenal Contemporary Art.
The expansive flatness of the mouth of the Wisconsin River. Henry P. Bosse (from 1885) in the Water Memories group exhibit at the Met.
Two Pueblo corn dancers floating in the water, recalling the flooding of Indigenous homelands. Cara Romero in the Water Memories group exhibit at the Met.
Leaving Lena Horne just out of the frame, alluding to racist film editing from the 1940s. Lorna Simpson, from 1998, in the drawings area on the second floor at the Met.
A structured view from a Parisian hotel window. Calvert Jones (or William Henry Fox Talbot), from 1843-1844, at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Photographs.
A paired echo of look and gesture. Cindy Sherman (with Richard Prince, from 1980) in the Faces & Figures group show at Skarstedt Gallery.
Magar villagers from northwestern Nepal using a fishing net as protection against evil spirits. Michael Oppitz (from 1978) at Galerie Buchholz.
