Martin Klimas at Foley Gallery

By passing polarized light through scrolled and bunched transparent films, German artist Martin Klimas creates an enticing abstraction in an array of tones and colors. (On view at Foley Gallery on the Lower East Side through Feb 18th).

Martin Klimas, Polarization 10998, 24 x 18.5 inches, archival pigment print, 2016.

Sage Sohier at Foley Gallery

Photographer Sage Sohier looks ambushed by her former-model mother and her sister, who make Sohier up with gusto in this family portrait. Our sympathy is tempered by mom’s and sis’s smiles, but as Sohier stages beauty treatments and time at home in her mother’s company, viewers are prompted to consider the role of beauty and appearances in Sohier’s life and our own. (On view at Foley Gallery on the Lower East Side through Jan 7th).

Sage Sohier, Mum and Laine making me up, Washington D.C., archival pigment print, 28h x 33.75w, 2004.

Wyatt Gallery at Foley Gallery

Subway advertising boards, scraped free of ads before being recovered by new posters, continue to inspire Wyatt Gallery’s ongoing photo series, ‘Subtext.’ In the latest work, he considers his images as portals to more tranquil, meditative environments than the train platform. (On view at Foley Gallery on the Lower East Side through June 25th).

Wyatt Gallery, 135th BC: 157-245.9, UV Cured Pigment Ink on Dibond, 42 x 54 inches, 2017.