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Lyle Ashton Harris at Salon94

Lyle Ashton Harris’ new photographic self-portraits continue to posit ambiguous identities while forcing the question of what might be ‘natural’ as he dons masks collected by his uncle in East Africa while posing nude in various outdoor locations in New York and New England.  Here, a tenuously held, chipped colored sheet obscures Harris’ face and upper torso, masking his identity as he stands in front of an anonymous shingled façade.  Africa, art, ritual, the male nude, New England architecture and other references conjoin and collide in one provocative image.  (On view at Salon94 through Dec 21st).

Lyle Ashton Harris, Zamble at Land’s End #2, dye sublimation print on aluminum, 48 x 32 inches, 2018.

Sylvie Fleury at Salon94 Bowery

“Unfettered, confident, individual…” – these adjectives don’t describe art or an artist, they’re part of Dior’s marketing for its ‘Precious Rocks’ eye shadow compact, remade into a series of large-sized acrylic paintings by Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury. Long a provocateur who questions fashion, consumption and ‘high’ art, Fleury’s latest series may be modeled on makeup, but it makes an unmissable nod to mid-20th century hard-edge abstraction. (On view on the Lower East Side at Salon94 Bowery through Dec 22nd).

Sylvie Fleury, Precious Rocks, acrylic on canvas on wood, 45.625 x 54.75 x 3 inches, 2017.

David Benjamin Sherry at Salon94 Bowery

Working blind in the dark room, David Benjamin Sherry exposes cardboard templates, acetates printed with patterns, his own body and that of his dog, Wizard to light sensitive paper. The vibrantly colored results don’t bear a recognizable likeness of the artist, but they feel intensely personal nonetheless. (At Salon94 Bowery on the Lower East Side through July 27th).

David Benjamin Sherry, detail of Metamorphosis (Self-portrait with Wizard), 150C40M0Y, unique color darkroom photogram, 72.25 x 29.75 inches (image, no frame), 2017.

Gaetano Pesce in ‘Ghost Dog’ at Salon94 Design

This huge clown by Italian designer Gaetano Pesce dominates Salon94’s lively new venture, Salon94 Design, promising good things to come. (On the Lower East Side through April 15th).

Installation view of ‘Ghost Dog’ at Salon94Design, featuring Gaetano Pesce’s, Tomando dal Circo Cabinet, resin, wood, steel, 245 x 136 x 100cm, 2016.

Lorna Simpson at Salon94 Bowery

Lorna Simpson’s understated, monochrome images employ collaged fragments from magazines like Ebony and Jet in a powerful, poetic mediation on race in America. (At Salon94 Bowery on the Lower East Side through Oct 22nd).

Lorna Simpson, Hands, India ink and screenprint on Clayboard, 48 x 36 inches, 2016.
Lorna Simpson, Hands, India ink and screenprint on Clayboard, 48 x 36 inches, 2016.