Dominique Paul at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery

Body-building and fashion magazines provide the material for Dominique Paul’s riotous collages of hybrid humans and altered insects. Using 17th and 18th century illustrations of plants and insects by artist Maria Merian as a framework, Paul mixes old and new in a bizarre but intriguing microcosm. (At Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery through May 27th).

Dominique Paul (detail of) Insects of Suriname 24, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 78 x 60 inches, 2014.