Carla Klein at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

What can a painting do that a photograph can’t? Carla Klein’s latest paintings, created from photos taken on visits to European greenhouses, set themselves apart by making familiar spaces seem strange. Frames and panels in the background look excessive, as if new spaces were propagating along with the plants. (On view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through Feb 15th).

Carla Klein, Untitled, oil on canvas, 59 x 106 ¼ x 1 inches, oil on canvas, 2017.