Adding massive scale to all-over arrangements of natural detritus. Tanya Marcuse at Julie Saul Gallery.

Painterly constructed stories filled with wartime memories. Paolo Ventura at Edwynn Houk Gallery.

A dense tangle of salvaged cabling. Paul Bulteel at Anastasia Photo.

Piecing together the celebrity of JFK Jr. Pacifico Silano at Rubber Factory.

Pushing the city into overexposed brightness. Andreas Gefeller at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery.

Reducing Venice to perfect flatness. Sze Tsung Leong at Danziger Gallery.

Alfred Hitchcock in the side mirror. Lawrence Schiller (from 1962) in the 10/11 Photographs auction at Heritage Auctions.

The all-over tangle of plastic chairs. Claude Iverné at Aperture Gallery.

The deeply inscribed lines of the Peruvian desert. Edward Ranney at Deborah Bell Photographs.

Using a glass plate to create unsettling distortion. Ana Mendieta in the Delirious group show at the Met Breuer.

A scathing mockery of the tourist experience. Carlos Ginzburg at Henrique Faria Fine Art.

Adding isolating abstraction to the warehouses of Buenos Aires. Horacio Zabala at Henrique Faria Fine Art.

Intricate layers of windows, blinds, and shadows. William Keck (from 1938) in the Modern Spirit group show at Laurence Miller Gallery.

The bold lines of an overhead walk. Boris Ignatovich in the Russian Photography after the Revolution group show at Nailya Alexander Gallery.

A dense compendium of futures collapsed into a single tableaux. Joshua Citarella at Higher Pictures.

Re-considering historic photographs in cut paper. Nathalie Boutté at Yossi Milo Gallery.

Members of the 1960s downtown art scene, with the artist in the mirror. Peter Hujar at Alexander and Bonin.

The gentle droop of a tulip. Robert Mapplethorpe in the 9/27 Fine Photographs sale at Skinner.

Finding striped abstraction in broken TV sets. Penelope Umbrico in the Inside/Outside Voices group show at Winston Wächter Fine Art.

Giving everyday death a splatter of color. Sam Falls at Galerie Eva Presenhuber.