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Trevor Paglen at Metro Pictures

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Trevor Paglan’s latest project ups the ante on artistic ambition; a series of one hundred images titled ‘Last Pictures’ was etched on a disk and affixed to a communications satellite that went into space last November, creating a selective portrait of mankind’s nature and history for all or none who may see it.  Here, a gallery visitor examines unselected images from Paglan’s shortlist. (At Metro Pictures in Chelsea, through March 9th).  

Trevor Paglen, ‘The Last Pictures’ installation view, Feb 2013 at Metro Pictures.

Gavin Kenyon at Ramiken Crucible

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Gavin Kenyon seems to be channeling influences from Hans Bellmer’s disturbing dolls to Senga Nengudi’s organic sack-like shapes in his new series at Ramiken Crucible on the Lower East Side.  The show’s untitled centerpiece was created by casting the insides of faux fur coats, which have left tufts of hair on the surface of this prettily colored, carcass-like beast of a sculpture. (Through March 3rd).  

Gavin Kenyon, untitled, dyed plaster, fur, 2013.

Motonaga Sadamasa in Gutai: Splendid Playground at the Guggenheim Museum

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Originally displayed in an outdoor exhibition by the avant-garde Gutai Art Association in 1956, a recreation of Mononaga Sadamasa’s ‘Work (Water)’ in polyethylene tubes filled with ink-colored water stretches across the Guggenheim Museum’s atrium to create elegant, hammock-like cradles for a valuable natural resource.  

Motonaga Sadamasa, ‘Work (Water)’ installation view at the Guggenheim, ’56 (original), 2011.

Jorge Queiroz at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

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Lisbon-based artist Jorge Queiroz barely allows a human figure to materialize in this psychologically intense painting, but his indistinct human presence turns the abstract shapes in the background into suggestions of places and objects of significance.  (At Chelsea’s Sikkema Jenkins & Co through March 2nd).  

Jorge Queiroz, Waiting on the Room, oil stick and vinyl ink on canvas, 2012.

Patricia Piccinini at Haunch of Venison

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Australian artist Patricia Piccinini has said that anxiety and wonder are at the heart of her bizarrely intriguing human-animal hybrid creatures, which explains why this fleshy fish is simultaneously repulsive and fascinating.  Titled ‘Eulogy,’ the piece suggests both a connection between this businessman and toxic waters that spawned this mutant and an individual’s personal loss. (At Haunch of Venison, Chelsea, through March 2nd).  

Patricia Piccinini, ‘Eulogy,’ silicon, fiberglass, human hair, clothing, 2011.