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‘No Name’ at On Stellar Rays

Bayard’s mohair sculpture, hanging from the ceiling of the Lower East Side’s ‘On Stellar Rays,’ may look uncomfortably warm for this weather but it’s the most tactile object in a show that includes a flag painted in bacon fat and pigment by Michael Mahalchick, a meticulously constructed faux pile of twigs by Nathaniel Robinson and a sculpture painstakingly crafted by Susan Collis to look like an old discarded plank.  (Through July 26th)  

Installation view of ‘No Name’ at On Stellar Rays, June 2013.

Maria Petschnig at On Stellar Rays

Austrian-born, Brooklyn-based artist Maria Petschnig terms her videos ‘raw’ and ‘psychological,’ terms which still apply to her videos and installation at On Stellar Rays on the Lower East Side, as she transforms the white cube gallery into a dimly lit, wood-paneled maze punctuated by mattress sculptures featuring eerily unknowable lumps.  (Through June 16th).  

Maria Petschnig, Mycroft, mattress, jersey, polyester, padding, 2013.

Rochelle Feinstein at On Stellar Rays

Rochelle Feinstein’s paired canvases deliver the same information: two cats in front of table or chair legs plus a pattern of black and white stripes.  But the pairing seems to question how subtly altering the stripes and moving the cats might effect the meaning. (At the Lower East Side’s ‘On Stellar Rays,’ through April 28th)  

Rochelle Feinstein, ‘Today in History,’ oil on canvas and digital prints on vinyl, 2013.