Latvian American artist Ella Kruglyanskaya’s fashion-aware female figures in her current solo show at Bortolami Gallery look as if they’ve been sketched in motion though they’re painted in oil on linen. ‘Beyond Good and Evil,’ a monumental rendering of a hair clip, doesn’t have quite the same on-the-fly quality but it does look as if it could scramble off the canvas at any moment. Openings resembling eyes and prongs that look like legs turn a simple accessory into something unexpectedly menacing. (On view at Bortolami in Tribeca through Dec 18th).
