Ryan Mrozowski at On Stellar Rays

Brooklyn-based Ryan Mrozowski’s condensed orange grove contrasts scattered leaves with ordered rows of bright orange fruit, creating an image that’s both random and ordered, mysterious and predictable, natural and manmade. (At On Steller Rays through Dec 13th).

 Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Orange), acrylic on linen, 50 x 56 inches, 2015.

Peter Saul at Mary Boone Gallery

Emmanuel Leutze’s famous depiction of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on the night of Dec 25th, 1776 takes artistic liberties, but not as many as Peter Saul’s hilarious comic version. Hopping across potato-like icebergs, Washington as a flower-hatted dandy uses his massive fists to punch red-faced, bug-eyed Hessian mercenaries in a dramatic historical rewrite. (At Chelsea’s Mary Boone Gallery through Dec 18th).

 Peter Saul, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, acrylic/canvas, 64 x 82 inches, 2015.

Kota Ezawa at Murray Guy Gallery

Kota Ezawa’s signature simplified, graphic images are well suited to his current body of work – lightboxes that replicate thirteen artworks stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. Contrary to the carefully executed detail in the original painting depicted here by Johannes Vermeer, Ezawa’s more generalized rendering suggests the omissions of memory. (At Chelsea’s Murray Guy Gallery through Dec 19th).

 Kota Ezawa, The Concert, LED lightbox, 28 x 25 inches, 2015.

Corinne Wasmuht at Petzel Gallery

Working from digital collages and computer sketches, Berlin-based artist Corinne Wasmuht paints scenes in public places that look as if they’re being transmitted by a spotty signal. Blurring the line between real and virtual worlds, each captures a seemingly illusory moment laid down permanently in oil on aluminum. (At Petzel Gallery in Chelsea through Dec 19th).

 Corinne Wasmuht, Pehoe P, oil on aluminum, 38.58 x 44.09 inches, 2015.

Peter Schuyff at Mary Boone Gallery

Peter Schuyff gives mid-century modernism a shake with this canvas that adopts a palette of primary colors (a la Mondrian or Dubuffet) and geometric forms and appears to be waving in the air. (At Mary Boone Gallery’s midtown location through Dec 18th).

 Peter Schuyff, Untitled, 79 x 71 inches, oil on linen, 2015.