Susan Wides at Kim Foster Gallery

Susan Wides’ innovative use of a tilt shift lens allows her to choose which plane in a landscape she’ll bring into sharp focus and what she’ll allow to blur. The resulting compositions are a charming reintroduction to the natural world, appearing abstract until our eyes can pick out the details, here, of flowers in the foreground and falling water beyond. (On view in Chelsea at Kim Foster Gallery through Dec 22nd).

Susan Wides, September 3, 2016_12:49:45, dye sublimation on aluminum, 60 x 40 inches.

Christian Faur at Kim Foster Gallery

This knock-out image of peonies assembled from hand-cast crayons opens Ohio-based artist Christian Faur’s latest solo show at Kim Foster Gallery. Also including an unmissable umbrella covered in human hair and a surprisingly robust U.S. flag crafted from currency, this exhibition has a high ‘wow’ factor. (On view in Chelsea through Oct 7th).

Christian Faur, Peonies, hand cast encaustic crayons, 55 x 69 inches, 20 panels.