Svenja Deininger at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Shape and color are subject matter for Viennese artist Svenja Deininger, who jettisons the latter in this untitled painting to create a play of surfaces and edges. (At Chelsea’s Marianne Boesky Gallery through Nov 14th).

Svenja Deininger, Untitled, oil on canvas, 80 ¼ x 52 inches framed, 2015.

Eric Aho at DC Moore Gallery

A frenzy of gestural abstraction in the foreground of this
painting by Vermont-based artist Eric Aho crystalizes into a representational
image of a majestic mountain in the far distance, giving the impression that Aho
begins by almost being inside his subject matter…then gradually allows images
to materialize.  (At Chelsea’s DC Moore
Gallery
through Nov 14th).

Eric Aho, The Mountain, oil on linen, 90 x 80inches, 2014.

Martin Wittfooth at Jonathan LeVine Gallery

Martin Wittfooth’s ‘Dawn’ would look like an exaggerated prophecy about the dangers of global warming on coastal cites were it not for the few apartment lights on below the massive whale. A few people are waking up to a reality far beyond the norm – a theme that ties into Wittfooth’s interest in altered consciousness in shamanistic practice. (At Chelsea’s Jonathan Levine Gallery through Nov 14th).

Martin Wittfooth, Dawn, oil on canvas, 54 x 120 inches, 2015.

Wolfgang Tillmans at David Zwirner Gallery

Digital technology allows us to picture everything in amazing detail, so how do you choose your subject matter as a professional photographer? Wolfgang Tillmans answers this question by continuing to zero in on the exceptional and mundane, picturing his day-to-day world (portraits of friends, laundry piles) and international travels in prints both tiny and monumental in a characteristic salon-style hanging which seems to evoke the randomness of life. (At David Zwirner Gallery through Oct 24th).

Wolfgang Tillmans, installation view of ‘New York Installation PCR’ at David Zwirner Gallery, September, 2015.

Roman Stanczak at Bureau Gallery

‘My sculptures speak of life…among spirits,’ says Warsaw-based sculptor Roman Stanczak, whose carefully destroyed bedside table at LES Bureau Gallery suggests a particularly haunted mental state. (Through Oct 25th).

Roman Stanczak, From 2nd to 3rd, wooden cupboard, wood chips, 22.75 x 38 x 39.25 inches, 2015.