Dionisio Gonzalez at Galerie Richard

Spanish photographer Dionisio Gonzelez ignites the imagination with ideas for redeveloping New York’s skyline, were money no object. Instead of envisioning skyscrapers, Gonzalez proposes connected rooftop parks and walkways that create green space for all. Here, transit routes converge near Central Park on Fifth Ave. (On the Lower East Side at Galerie Richard through August 27th).

Dionisio Gonzalez, Dialectical Landscape 7, 40 x 40 inches, digital printing on cotton paper mounted on dibond and framed in white, 2017.

 

Samuel Gratacap in ‘Notions of Home’ at Yancey Richardson Gallery

Shot at Choucha, a Tunisian transit camp that has been a temporary home to hundreds of thousands of refugees, Samuel Gratacap’s stark image of cobbled-together UN tents speaks to the innovation and desperation of camp inhabitants. (At Yancey Richardson Gallery in Chelsea through Aug 25th).

Samuel Gratacap, Empire, refugee camp of Choucha (Tunisia, 2012 – 14), archival pigment print, 22 3/8 x 23 inches.