Energetic shifting portholes in orange and green. Hannah Whitaker in the A Verdant Summer group show at Taymour Grahne.

The overlapped harmony of palms and triangles. Matthew Porter in the A Verdant Summer group show at Taymour Grahne.

Interwoven fragments of emotional singing. Mickalene Thomas in the Repossession group show at Lehman Maupin.

Dense floral overpainting as a visual interrupter. Michael De Feo at Danziger.

Idling beneath the street lamp. Gordon Parks in the Summer Nights group show at Howard Greenberg.

The powerful anguish of Billie Holiday. William Gottlieb in the A Cool Breeze group show at Howard Greenberg.

Folding chair camping in Yosemite. Bruce Davidson in the A Cool Breeze group show at Howard Greenberg.

Coney Island lines and angles. Leon Levinstein in the A Cool Breeze group show at Howard Greenberg.

Genius interruption by light bulb. Lee Friedlander in the Make Light of It group show at Pace/MacGill.

A symphony of reflected green. Paul Graham in the Make Light of It group show at Pace/MacGill.

Backlit by moth trails. Emmet Gowin in the Make Light of It group show at Pace/MacGill.

Yellow bike, yellow sweater, yellow hair, and yellow balloon. Roger Steffens/The Family Acid at Benrubi Gallery.

The delicate melancholy of snowfall on persimmons. Hiroshi Watanabe at Benrubi Gallery.

Readymade still lifes of Man and Woman. Man Ray in the Dadaglobe Reconstructed show at MoMA.

Seeing the Virgin Mary in a New Jersey window. Rachel Harrison at MoMA.

Horizontal layers of trailers, surf, and water. Joe Deal in the Back at the Water’s Edge group show at Robert Mann.

Bikini ease and shooting arrows. Henry Wessel in the Back at the Water’s Edge group show at Robert Mann.

A taxonomy of colored plastic shards. Gabriel Orozco in the Summer Selections group show at Marian Goodman.

A tumble of ancient megalithic stones. Tacita Dean in the Summer Selections group show at Marian Goodman.

Channeling Carleton Watkins with spicy hot chips. Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman in the Lost in Space group show at Rick Wester Fine Art.