Paul Winstanley at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

British artist Paul Winstanley’s paintings of empty art studio spaces in colleges around the UK are improbable subject matter for such pleasingly still, light-infused minimal compositions. Come September, they’ll fill with bodies, activity and color but at the moment, the tranquility is a pleasure. (At Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea through July 19th).

Paul Winstanley, Art School 40, oil on panel, 56 5/8 x 37 3/4inches, 2015.

Matthew Fisher at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies (NYCAMS)

Matthew Fisher’s tidy waves look like carefully coiffured heads rising from the deeps and arranged in careful rows, like a school picture or choir rehearsal in the light of an apocalyptically weird sun.  (At Chelsea’s New York Center for Art and Media Studies through April 12th.)

Matthew Fisher