Eric Fischl at Skarstedt

Though the pool is enticing, this isn’t a tranquil summer scene. Eric Fischl’s ‘Daddy’s Gone, Girl’ suggests that the woman in the voluminous black dress is in mourning for an absent father and maybe a little unmoored. As an update on Fischl’s well-known 1984 painting Daddy’s Girl, it’s a meditation on loss and isolation. (At Skarstedt’s Chelsea location through June 24th).

Eric Fischl, Daddy’s Gone, Girl, oil on linen, 78 x 107 inches, 2016.

Ellen Berkenblit at Anton Kern Gallery

A stylized nose, heavily made-up eyelashes and explosively arranged red hair are nearly submerged beneath expressionist flowers in Ellen Berkenblit’s ‘Color Forms,’ in which her character both merges and clashes with the landscape. (At Anton Kern Gallery in Chelsea through July 3rd).

Ellen Berkenblit, Color Forms, oil on canvas, 94 x 76 inches, 2013.