Lone insects, sharpened fingernails and portraits of impassive, semi-clad or nude characters lend young New York painter Gahee Park’s new paintings at Perrotin Gallery a sense of eerie calm and pervasive danger. Innuendo ranges from the obvious to subtle, here appearing in two speared olives and the fishs’ pretty lips not to mention the long red nails pulling down the blinds. A mini-cascade of eyes peers in past the shrimp-shaped nails to give the painting a surreal, voyeuristic charge. (On view on the Lower East Side through Oct 17th).
