Guy Yanai at Ameringer McEnery Yohe

Tel Aviv-based artist Guy Yanai’s subject matter – houses, domestic interiors and portraits of plants – is sedate but his blocky, early video game aesthetic gives the paintings a jittery edge.   This plant appears to hover in space while reaching for the top edge of the canvas with an energy foreign to most potted plants. (In Chelsea at Ameringer McEnery Yohe through August 18th).

Guy Yanai, Palermo, oil on linen, 58.27 x 47.24 inches, 2017.