Tomas Sanchez at Marlborough Gallery

It’s no surprise that #meditation is one of the first tags Cuban painter Tomas Sanchez uses when posting images of new paintings to Instagram.  His intensely detailed, imagined landscapes are inspired by his daily meditative practice and celebrate the sublime on both a vast and tiny scale, eliciting wonder at nature’s complexity.  Sanchez’s first show at Marlborough New York in over 15 years offers a decade of work – new and loaned from collections.  It features not only verdant scenes but a selection of paintings featuring vast fields of discarded consumer items and trash, a disturbing contrast to the boundlessness of nature in the paintings. (On view through Jan 22nd. Note holiday hours and closures.)

Tomas Sanchez, Inner Lagoon…Thought-Cloud, acrylic on canvas, 78 ¾ x 78 ½ inches, 2016.

Lauren Luloff at Marlborough Gallery

Young Brooklyn artist Lauren Luloff equates human bodies and surrounding vegetation in pieces like ‘2 Jenns in the Forest’ in her show ‘Water Vessels’ at Chelsea’s Marlborough Gallery. Using bleach on bedsheets, she creates ghostly images assembled as fragments on the stretcher. (Through March 28th).

Lauren Luloff, 2 Jenns in the Forest, bleached bedsheets and fabric, 111 x 118 inches, 2015.