A chain link fence rises like steam before a fiery sunset in Leigh Ruple’s ‘Metropolitan Avenue,’ an otherwise nondescript industrial scene turned electric by intense light, bands of color and prowling cats. (On view at Morgan Lehman Gallery in Chelsea through Feb 10th).
Cancer treatment in 2009 caused Sarah Bednarek to experience hallucinations of a geometric world; in her show at Morgan Lehman Gallery, she manifests these visions as sculptural forms that seem to simultaneously offer the mysteries of a red void and the domestic banality of veneered wood. Behind, Leigh Ruple’s vividly colored, lethargic character is barely contained by the canvas. (In Chelsea through July 29th).
