Shoehorning European bookplates into African sculptural forms. John Stezaker in the The Approach booth at the Independent.
Layers of intermingled reflective distortion. Willa Nasatir in the Chapter NY booth at the Independent.
Coaxing abstract color distortion out of transparent films. New Martin Klimas in the Foley Gallery booth at Volta NY.
The intermingled swirls of backlit clouds and light leaks. Scott McFarland at Fort Gansevoort.
Morandi-inspired bottle forms illuminated by flares of light. Uta Barth at Tanya Bonakdar.
The symbolic distress of a tattered flag. Ruddy Roye in the Collective Thinking, For Freedoms show at Aperture.
Caught in a spiderweb of pantyhose. Senga Nengudi in Circa 1970 at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Using all-over text to capture the rhythm of the streets. Juliana Huxtable in Excerpt at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Layered wildflower cyanotypes from Monet’s garden. Pipo Nguyen-duy at ClampArt.
The passionate face of resistance. Devin Allen in The Window and the Breaking of the Window at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
A call to action behind chain link. Alice Attie in The Window and the Breaking of the Window at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Photobook as art object, with chance image pairings on front/back. Dayanita Singh in the Compassionate Protocols group show at Callicoon Fine Arts.
The shifting scanned forms of crumpled newspaper wrappings. Pradeep Dalal in the Compassionate Protocols group show at Callicoon Fine Arts.
Adding faces to refugee camps via Instagram overlays. Tomas van Houtryve in the Perpetual Revolution show at the ICP.
The chained shackles of an escape artist. James Van Der Zee in the Perpetual Revolution show at the ICP.
Queer nightlife in ecstatic swirling light. Tinker Coalescing in the Perpetual Revolution show at the ICP.
Turning Kolkata tram cars into streaks of color. Martin Roemers at Anastasia Photo.
Red earth and the determined delicacy of a Rwandan child. Pieter Hugo at Yossi Milo Gallery.
The sensual interplay of leaves and a body. Flor Garduño at Throckmorton Fine Art.
Purple pants, Diet Pepsi, and a garment delivery sway. Helen Levitt in The Big Apple group show at Laurence Miller Gallery.