John Williams at Brennan and Griffin Gallery

John Williams eschews the cutting edge by repurposing old technology, using overhead projectors to create a series of bold sculptures that recall the experimental quality of Man Ray’s photograms with an extra measure of playful inventiveness.   Here, car parts affixed to the gallery wall become hair and a smile, a projected straw is a nose and a slinky funnels light upward into a bright white eye.   The other eye must be winking at us as we share the joke. (At Brennan and Griffin on the Lower East Side through July 21st. )

John Williams, New Haircut, overhead projector, car parts, convex mirror, slinky, plastic straw, hooks and nails, dimensions variable, 2017.