Beach meets Japanese garden in Allan Wexler’s carefully combed sand installation at Jane Lombard Gallery in Tribeca, where the summer group show ‘Immensity of Blue’ immerses gallery visitors in sunny summer scenes. Swapping out the traditional stones of a Japanese sand garden for a beach chair and other paraphernalia of a day at the shore, Wexler presents the beach as place of spiritual renewal; by abruptly slicing into a towel and chair where the platform’s boundaries end, he knowingly proffers just a taste of this retreat. On the wall behind, Ayse Wilson’s blue and pink figures gracefully plunge into a field of blue, their serene expressions suggesting happy tranquility. (On view in Tribeca through Aug 14th).
