Josh Kline’s stunning new show at Lower East Side gallery 47 Canal imagines a world in which technological advances have created mass unemployment. Carts with bottles and cans rendered in flesh tones suggest a sinister equivalence between recyclables and bodies that have been rendered redundant by ‘progress.’ (Through June 12th).
Flesh-color, cabbage-like leaves nestle in a container that recalls an incubator in Hannah Levy’s alluringly odd sculpture at 247365 Gallery. Waxy fingers that hold the tub and leaves made of something resembling skin recall Keith Edmier’s resin renderings of his mother or Matthew Barney’s plastics and petroleum jelly, making for fascinating but unnerving sculpture.
