Paul Wackers at Morgan Lehman Gallery

Whether they’re painted subject matter on the shelves of a particularly cluttered design shop, or sculptures in the round, Paul Wackers’ ceramic forms revel in the possibilities of color and form. (At Chelsea’s Morgan Lehman Gallery through July 18th).

Paul Wackers, Untitled, low fire clay, glaze, under glaze, 13 ¾ x 14 x 12 ½ inches, 2015 (foreground). Nachtwinkel (Night Shop), acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 72 54 inches, 2015 (background).

Andrew Schoultz at Morgan Lehman Gallery

San Francisco-based artist Andrew Schoultz alters Morgan Lehman’s white cube gallery by papering the walls with sections replicating building bricks.  It’s the perfect backdrop for pieces that picture natural and man-made disasters, including this acrylic and collage image of a tornado demolishing a red brick building.  (At Chelsea’s Morgan Lehman Gallery through October 12th).  

Andrew Schoultz, Tornado (Up in the Air), acrylic, collage, graphite, and string on wooden panel, 2013.

Jackie Gendel in ‘Bathers’ at Morgan Lehman Gallery

Jackie Gendel’s bathers cast hard stares or fall into melancholy sleep, their prone bodies acting as stand-ins for dunes under a darkening sky.  (At Chelsea’s Morgan Lehman Gallery through Aug 23rd).  

Jackie Gendel, At the Beach, water dispersed pigment and vinyl on canvas, 2013.