The brightness of shifting trees, seen underground. Leah Oates in the Bryant Park subway station.

Species categorization of ayatollah flowers. Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery.

Rebuilding the still life with contradictory digital fragments. Lucas Blalock in the More Simply Put group show at Sikkema Jenkins.

A precarious tower of obsolete technology. Jeanette May at Klompching Gallery.

A rising flock of artificial birds. Alessandra Sanguinetti at Aperture Gallery.

Sculptural image surfaces merging bananas and yellow plaid. David Kennedy Cutler at Derek Eller Gallery.

A stuttering triptych of anxious all-over florals. Chau Tran-Vi in the TX: Yale MFA Photo 2017 show at Danziger Gallery.

The formal interplay of a fencing mask, a Rolex, and male calm. Matthew Leifheit in the TX: Yale MFA Photo 2017 show at Danziger Gallery.

Crisp symbolic details in blue and white. Farah Al Qasimi in the TX: Yale MFA Photo 2017 show at Danziger Gallery.

The formal perspective lines of receding railcars. Victoria Sambunaris at Yancey Richardson Gallery.

Women of color rethinking themselves for a corporate world. Endia Beal at the Half King.

A dense network of pottery shards and fiber optics. Vivan Sundaram at sepia EYE.

A lonely bird against an expansive sky. Felix Gonzalez-Torres at David Zwirner.

Finding abstraction in the negative space of a fotonovela collage. Leandro Katz at Henrique Faria Fine Art.

A staged gun battle with street art. Jamel Shabazz at United Photo Industries.

Muscular architecture and ambiguous estrangement. Shirin Neshat at Gladstone Gallery.

Sandwiched layers of urgent questions. David Attie in the Picture the Word group show at Keith De Lellis Gallery.

Extending Erwitt with one more mirrored door jamb. Barbara Bloom at David Lewis Gallery.

Creating mirrored effects with two photogram sheets. Walead Beshty at Petzel Gallery.

A candy-colored array of ghostly aura portraits. Susan Hiller at Lisson Gallery.