Jackie Saccoccio at Eleven Rivington

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Painter Jackie Saccoccio blurs the lines between abstraction and representation in huge new paintings that respond to well-known art historical portraits with complete abstraction. In the foreground, the sumptuous colors and extravagant patterns in Saccoccio’s piece parallel the decoration and costume of a well-to-do young woman in Domenico Ghirlandaio’s 1488 portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni. (At Eleven Rivington through May 18th).

Jackie Saccoccio, Profile (GT Concave), oil and mica on linen, 106 x 79 inches, 2014.

Robert Longo at Petzel Gallery

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There’s little subtlety in Robert Longo’s massive, 17 ft tall U.S. flag that appears to sink into Petzel Gallery’s floor and is subtitled ‘The Pequod’ after the ship destroyed by Ahab’s mad quest for vengeance on Moby Dick. (In Chelsea through May 10th).

Robert Longo, Untitled (The Pequod), steel, wood, wax and pigment, 207 x 192 x 12 inches, 2014.

Rochelle Feinstein at On Stellar Rays

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The dubiously sincere phrase ‘Love Your Work!’ inspires an update on a series of paintings begun in the 90s by Rochelle Feinstein at On Stellar Rays. Written forwards and backwards against an envy-green background in earnestly slanting script and missing an ‘I’ that might give it more gravity, the three word phrase speaks volumes. (On the Lower East Side through May 11th).

Rochelle Feinstein, Love Your Work (detail), fresco, 1999.

Guillermo Kuitca at Sperone Westwater

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Caught up in painting dynamic geometric shapes one day in his studio, Argentinian artist Guillermo Kuitca went beyond the canvas and painted his studio walls. With that experience as inspiration, he created a walk-in room that surrounds the viewer on all four sides with a cubist cascade of shapes. (At Sperone Westwater on the Lower East Side through June 21st).

Guillermo Kuitca, Untitled, oil on wood; four-panel installation, 102 3/8 x 176 x 124 inches, 2014.

Vik Muniz at Sikkema Jenkins & Co

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In his latest series ‘Postcards from Nowhere,’ Brazilian artist Vik Muniz magnifies the thrill of getting a postcard (an experience which the Internet age may be consigning to the past) by collaging together postcards blown up to huge scale (seen here in detail). (At Chelsea’s Sikkema Jenkins & Co through May 10th).

Vik Muniz, detail from New York Postcard (Postcards from Nowhere), digital c-print, 71 x 111.5 inches, 2014.