Lucy Skaer at Simone Subal Gallery

Lucy Skaer, Us to Them V, C-print mounted on aluminum, 2012.
Lucy Skaer, Us to Them V, C-print mounted on aluminum, 2012.

British conceptual artist Lucy Skaer once left a diamond and a scorpion together on an Amsterdam street.  ‘Us to Them V,’ a photo of Skaer comparing natural materials to French Post-Impressionist Eduoard Vuillard’s 1895 painting ‘Album’ in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, isn’t quite so dangerous.  But it does make a strange juxtaposition that interrupts usual ways of thinking of 19th century art. (At Simone Subal Gallery the group show ‘It’s Over There,’ Lower East Side through Feb 10th).