Pulling a snowy scene into a veil of digital drips and elongations. Sandra Kantanen at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.
Matching pots of colored paint with a Kodak Gray Scale chart. Sarah Charlesworth, in a paired show with Sherrie Levine and Bernd and Hilla Becher, at Paula Cooper Gallery.
Using layered collage and delicate overpainting to expressively re-interpret images of the artist’s mother. Sebastiaan Bremer at Edwynn Houk Gallery.
Watery reflections of energetically jumbled city lights. David Attie in the New York Stories group show at Keith de Lellis Gallery.
Hands emphatically raising a torch and squeezing a shutter release. Tseng Kwong Chi at Yancey Richardson Gallery.
A jitteringly surreal face split by multiple exposures. Clarence John Laughlin in the Body of Evidence group show at Laurence Miller Gallery.
Bold leaf forms in cyanotype blue. Anna Atkins in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.
The spinning geometries of an 1890s harmonograph drawing. Frederick Evans in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.
The etching-like gestures of a scratched drawing cliché verre. Eugene Delacroix in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.
An intricately detailed camera lucida drawing of 1820s Turin. John Herschel in the Drawing: The Muse of Photography group show at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs.
A melting pot combination of hanging drapery, red fingernails, and a white cockatoo. Farah Al Qasimi on an NYC bus shelter (via Public Art Fund.)
Splicing together Elsa dolls, remixing handmade details and individualized desires. Loretta Fahrenholz at Company Gallery.
Watery reflections of Venetian boats fragmented into painterly gestures. Melissa McGill at TOTAH Gallery.
Contact sheet choices for Biggie Smalls in a crown. Barron Claiborne in CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop at the ICP.
The Pharcyde turning the corner with high energy. Mark Humphrey in CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop at the ICP.
Looking upward to the reserved cool of Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Raven B. Varona in CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop at the ICP.
Mid-1980s Run DMC posing in the street. Janette Beckman in CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop at the ICP.
Layered fabrics and a daunting stare. Lisette Model in The Lower East Side: Selections from the ICP Collection at the ICP.
The 1895 grime surrounding a weary Ludlow Street cobbler. Jacob Riis in The Lower East Side: Selections from the ICP Collection at the ICP.
Inverting Siskind with a tumbling martial artist. Alex Majoli in the Selections from Collections group show at Howard Greenberg Gallery.
