Susie MacMurray at Danese Corey Gallery

Susie MacMurray’s stately ‘Medusa,’ dignifies the maligned mythological character by refashioning her imposing figure in a beautiful surface of tiny, interlocked copper rings. (At Chelsea’s Danese Corey Gallery through May 21st.)

Susie MacMurray, Medusa, handmade copper chain mail over fiberglass and steel armature, 72 x 96 x 96 inches, 2014 – 15.
Susie MacMurray, Medusa, handmade copper chain mail over fiberglass and steel armature, 72 x 96 x 96 inches, 2014 – 15.

Martin Kippenberger, ‘Raft of the Medusa,’ at Skarstedt Gallery

Late German artist Martin Kippenberger stepped into the role of the living, dying, hopeful and lost by portraying different characters from Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa in his 1996 series of paintings and these photos, shot by his wife Elfie Semotan. (At Skarstedt Gallery, Upper East Side, through April 26th).

Martin Kippenberger, photographs by Elfie Semotan, installation view of ‘Raft of the Medusa’ at Skarstedt Gallery, April 2014.