Robert Longo at Metro Pictures Gallery

Round the corner into Metro Pictures smaller back gallery and suddenly you’re in the valley of an enormous wave, dwarfed by a ominous black swell that prompts terror even on dry land. The scene is the highlight of Robert Longo’s show of huge, charcoal drawings, a body of work that pictures refugees, CIA prisoners and Ferguson protesting football players in a tour de force of contemporary conflict. (On view in Chelsea through June 17th).

Robert Longo, Untitled (Raft at Sea), triptych; charcoal on mounted paper, 140 x 281 inches overall, 2016-2017.