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Duke Riley at Magnan Metz Gallery

Last year, from the decks of a decommissioned Navy ship, artist Duke Riley orchestrated dramatic light shows with over one thousand pigeons carrying LED lights on their legs. If the birds seemed anonymous as they put on a light show in the dark, their identities come into focus now at a two-gallery exhibition of related artwork, including a room of hand-painted and embroidered portraits of 1,000 birds. (On view at Magnan Metz Gallery’s pop up location at 524 West 26th Street and 521 West 26th Street through Oct 21st).

Duke Riley, installation view of ‘The Armies of the Night,’ embroidery and paint on canvas, 14 x 9 inches, 2017.

David Opdyke at Magnan Metz Gallery

In David Opdyke’s nimble hands, subtly altered vintage postcards meant to stoke civic pride instead provoke dismay in a new series on view at Chelsea’s Magnan Metz Gallery. Opdyke prophesies doom in drawings, textiles and animations themed on class warfare and a dysfunctional government. Here, an august Chicago High School experiences a surreal trauma inflicted by a giant pencil (Through Oct 22nd).

David Opdyke, A for Effort (082), gouache and ink on vintage postcard, 4 x 6 inches, 2016.
David Opdyke, A for Effort (082), gouache and ink on vintage postcard, 4 x 6 inches, 2016.

Mangle (Diego Alvarez and Maria Paula Alvarez) at Magnan Metz Gallery

Columbian artists Diego Alvarez and Maria Paula Alvarez treat wood as if it were paper in both meticulous lattices that mimic Bogota’s fencing and this cedar oak plywood sheet that drapes over a Plexiglas shelf like a piece of fabric. (At Magnan Metz Gallery through May 21st.)

Mangle (Colectivo Mangle, Diego Alvarez y Maria Paula Alvarez), Circular corner covering II, fretwork on cedar oak plywood, 14 cm x 53 cm x 27 cm, 2016.
Mangle (Colectivo Mangle, Diego Alvarez y Maria Paula Alvarez), Circular corner covering II, fretwork on cedar oak plywood, 14 cm x 53 cm x 27 cm, 2016.

Roberto Diago at Magnan Metz

Celebrated Cuban artist Roberto Diago presents wall-mounted works in corrugated sheet metal that look like weather-beaten modernist abstractions with a distinctly Cuban twist revealed in the title, ‘Variaciones de Oggun,’ a nod to the Latin American deity Oggun, who is associated with metal work. (At Magnan Metz in Chelsea through April 9th).

Roberto Diago, installation view of work from the series, ‘Variaciones de Oggun,’ (Variations of Ogun), 2010, March 2016 at Magnan Metz Gallery.
Roberto Diago, installation view of work from the series, ‘Variaciones de Oggun,’ (Variations of Ogun), 2010, March 2016 at Magnan Metz Gallery.

David Opdyke at Magnan Metz Gallery

Though toppled, David Opdyke’s utility pole appears to be sprouting new growth, suggesting that man-made inventions can have a life of their own, or that (even old) technology is an unstoppable force. (At Magnan Metz Gallery through May 31st.)

David Opdyke, Secondary Growth Line Extension, reclaimed NJCP&L utility pole, Styrofoam, steel, resin, paint, glass insulator caps, 91 x 92 x 60 inches, 2014.