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Kiki Kogelnik at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

As Pop art burst onto the US art scene in the early 60s, Austrian artist Kiki Kogelnik moved to New York and forged her own related path, imagining humans as robots, bombs as sculpture and later, models as aliens.  In this painting from 1979, Kogelnik morphed the fashion-forward woman of the day into a creature with glowing eyes and stylish garments, hair and skin in reptilian green tones.  Set against floating triangles, the women are as abstract as their backgrounds and ready to defy convention.  (On view at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in Chelsea through June 29th).

Kiki Kogelnik, City, oil and acrylic on canvas, 98 5/8 x 63 1/8 inches, 1979.

Chris Johanson at Mitchell-Innes and Nash

Dominated by dominoes and colorful concentric circles with a cent sign at the middle, this painting by Mission School artist Chris Johanson suggests that life is a game, with cents and/or sense at the center. Scenes from everyday life – a bedroom, a suburban storefront – look like they could easily disintegrate into the surrounding abstraction at any moment. (At Mitchell-Innes and Nash in Chelsea through May 13th).

Chris Johanson, Dominoes and Impermanence with Love , acrylic on found wood, 64 ¼ x 73 ½ x 4 inches, 2015.

Keltie Ferris at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Keltie Ferris, Turn, Turn, Step, Step, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012.
Keltie Ferris, Turn, Turn, Step, Step, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012.

‘Fresh, direct and very much of this moment,’ is how the New York Times described Brooklyn artist Keltie Ferris’ show of large, digital-looking handmade oil and acrylic paintings at Chelsea’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash.  Blurs of sprayed paint suggest a plane’s vapor trail while carefully painted pixel-like blocks of yellow-orange color lend the painting a jumpy energy.  (Through Jan 12th.)

Andrew Kuo in ‘In Plain Sight’ at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Andrew Kuo, 'Tallboy,' acrylic on linen, 2012.
Andrew Kuo, ‘Tallboy,’ acrylic on linen, 2012.

Linsanity goes on hiatus in Andrew Kuo’s tiny painting of Houston Rockets star Jeremy Lin as he is chastised by an angry basketball.  Floating in a tank a la Jeff Koon’s basketballs in his 1985 ‘Equilibrium’ series, the ball becomes the object of our attention, forcing a downcast Lin into the backseat.  The vicissitudes of stardom never looked so cute. (‘Tallboy’ is in the group exhibition ‘In Plain Sight’ at Chelsea’s Mitchell-Innes & Nash through August 17th).