Overpainting the head of Zeus with gestural marks. Andres Serrano (from 2024) at Lubov.
Darkly tactile images of mannequins, dissolving into decay. James Bantone (from 2024) at New York Life Gallery.
A quilt-like photo-weaving of floral photographs draped over a hospital bed, made in mourning for those lost. Hunter Reynolds (from 1990/2018) at PPOW Gallery.
Documenting the Islamic tombs (qubbas) of Old Dongola in Sudan. Ali Cherri (from 2019) in the Living Fragments Dreaming Totality group show at Bienvenu Steinberg & C.
Annotating archival photographs of Crow leaders attending an 1880 negotiation in Washington, adding cultural context and personal connection. Wendy Red Star (from 2014) in the What it Becomes group show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Using long exposures to make motion-based “drawings” with the artist’s face. Blythe Bohnen (from 1974) in the What it Becomes group show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Carrying the weight of an imitation totem. Nicholas Galanin (from 2024) at Peter Blum Gallery.
Catching Brice Marden drifting past the window of his studio. Annie Leibovitz (from 2013/2024) at Hauser & Wirth.
The muted sadness of dead hummingbirds near an opening created by a flower. Sheida Soleimani (from 2021) in a two person show with Samantha Box at Baxter St at CCNY.
An illusionistic version of a western rockscape. Matt Calarco in the High Low Buffalo University of Hartford MFA graduate show at Baxter St at CCNY.
The nubby tactile geometries of couch cushions. Anastasia Davis in the High Low Buffalo University of Hartford MFA graduate show at Baxter St at CCNY.
Cigarette butts in a broken glass block. Andrew McClees in the High Low Buffalo University of Hartford MFA graduate show at Baxter St at CCNY.
A shadowy scene of precisely arranged objects. Peggy Anderson in the High Low Buffalo University of Hartford MFA graduate show at Baxter St at CCNY.
Organizing the landscape with a large wooden frame. Robert Frank (from 1979) at Pace Gallery.
The overlapped players of the “Train Whistle Blues”. Romare Bearden (from 1964) at DC Moore Gallery.
Posing male nudes in every letter of the alphabet (this is Y). Peter McGough at Karma.
Isolating jungle scenes from famous Vietnam war movies (Platoon/Apocalypse Now/Hamburger Hill), all actually filmed in the Philippines. Stephanie Syjuco (from 2007) in the Fugitive Land group show at Silverlens.
An incident in a crosswalk, as seen in forged steel crosshairs. Y. Malik Jalal at March Gallery.
Hank Willis Thomas finding visual “kinship” between images by Irving Penn at Pace Gallery, like tangled wrestlers and shrimp in a bouillabaisse (both from 1948).
The brick-like patterns of a grain barge from above, as published in the first edition of Hart Crane’s The Bridge. Walker Evans (from 1929) in the second floor hallway at the Met.
