Leidy Churchman in ‘Sputterances’ at Metro Pictures

Leidy Churchman’s carefully arranged giraffes in the group exhibition ‘Sputterances’ at Metro Pictures categorize nature into manageable options, here, small, medium and large. Titled ‘Free Delivery,’ the painting equates the animals with product consumption, coincidently offering a provocative comment on the huge on-line audience that watched April the giraffe give birth to a calf in an upstate animal park in recent weeks. (In Chelsea through April 22nd).

Leidy Churchman, Free Delivery, oil on linen, 54 x 81 inches, 2017.

Simen Johan at Yossi Milo Gallery

New York based-Scandinavian artist Simen Johan’s latest photos from his ongoing series, ‘Until the Kingdom Comes’ are stronger than even, offering seamless images of animals inserted into landscapes that would be alien to them, as with these giraffes (shot in a U.S. zoo), whose heads are lost in the fog of landscapes from Turkey, Bali & Iceland.  (At Chelsea’s Yossi Milo Gallery through Dec 7th).  

Simen Johan, Untitled #172, digital c-print, 2013.