Amy Casey at Foley Gallery

Walks and bus rides through Cleveland’s post-industrial landscape inspires Amy Casey’s amazingly intricate acrylic paintings. Here, the built environment mobilizes into twisted chains that evoke jewelry or a train set. (At Foley Gallery on the Lower East Side through Oct 30th).

Amy Casey, (detail) Swirlsnap, acrylic on panel, 48 x 48 inches, 2016.
Amy Casey, (detail) Swirlsnap, acrylic on panel, 48 x 48 inches, 2016.

Lordan Bunch at Foley Gallery

Self-taught super realist painter Lordan Bunch paints children from class photos and photo-booth shots, pulling their identities from oblivion to act as memento mori. (At Foley Gallery on the Lower East Side through June 30th).

Lordan Bunch, Amiable no 9, oil on panel, 17.5 x 11.5 inches, 2012.
Lordan Bunch, Amiable no 9, oil on panel, 17.5 x 11.5 inches, 2012.

Martin Klimas at Foley Gallery

Known for photographing freeze dried flowers as he explodes them and liquid pigment as it is blasted by sound from a speaker, German artist Martin Klimas has come up with another way to make merge sound and art in a new body of work at Foley Gallery. The ‘Pure Tones’ series involves a frequency generator and still water, which is disturbed in surprisingly beautiful patterns, as evidenced by this grid of surfaces. (On the Lower East Side through May 22nd).

Martin Klimas, untitled inkjet and lenticular prints, 12 x 12 inches, 2014.
Martin Klimas, untitled inkjet and lenticular prints, 12 x 12 inches, 2014.

Casey Ruble at Foley Gallery

Casey Ruble’s meticulous cut paper images of former safe houses on the Underground Railway and locations of Civil Rights era riots confer a potent stillness on historical scenes that are fading from memory, largely unmarked by signage or physical markers. Here, she focuses on the epicenter of the 1967 Newark riot, where police mistreatment of an African American cab driver sparked a devastating protest. (At Foley Gallery on the Lower East Side through March 20th).

Casey Ruble, Music.  Even laughter.  And always the gunfire.  Paper collage, 8.5 x 6 inches, 2015.
Casey Ruble, Music. Even laughter. And always the gunfire. Paper collage, 8.5 x 6 inches, 2015.

Simon Schubert at Foley Gallery

Edgar Allan Poe’s stern face dominates one very dark wall of graphite drawings by German artist Simon Schubert at the Lower East Side’s Foley Gallery; on the other, a series of white paper ‘drawings’ are folded to create the lines that picture a staircase with a ghostly figure. The sense of a benign, ghostly presence is palpable. (Through Oct 18th).

Simon Schubert, Untitled (Stairs with Figure), 39.5 x 27.5 inches, 2015.