Jim Campbell at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery

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San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell works with sophisticated technology to make low-res images that offer a fragment of the information we’re used to in the HD age; yet images like this one of a yellow cab whizzing by hold viewers’ attention by capturing the recognizable action of the street. (At Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery through April 19th. Also at the Museum of the Moving Image in Long Island City through June 15th.)

Jim Campbell, Untitled (Commuters), LEDs, metal, wire, custom electronics, 43 x 63 x 18 ½ inches, 2014.

Anne Chu at Tracy Williams, Ltd.

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A giant hare, titled after the constellation Lepus, sits tethered to a mobile suspending what appear as fragments of patterned cloth colored shades of night-blue in a new work by Anne Chu at Tracy Williams, Ltd in Chelsea. Skinned and with fur, alert yet stationary, the hare seems as momentarily suspended between states as the mobile. (Through April 19th).

Anne Chu, Lepus, leather, metal, ceramic, 2014.

Klara Kristalova at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

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A bird woman, eerie twins and a girl with branches growing out of her body are just some of the odd characters populating Swedish artist Klara Kristalova’s show of evocative new ceramic sculpture at Lehmann Maupin Gallery on the Lower East Side. Inspired by folk tales, daily life, movies and even overheard conversations, the psychologically charged figures hint at intriguing stories. (At Lehmann Maupin Gallery through April 26th. Kristalova is also showing at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin on Madison Ave through April 12th).

Klara Kristalova, Birdwoman, glazed stoneware, 2013.

The Last Brucennial

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Sprawling and jam-packed with painting, sculpture, video and more, the ‘Brucennial’ – the biannual, tongue-in-cheek response to the Whitney Biennial organized by anonymous art collective ‘Bruce High Quality Foundation’ – is a hive of activity worth witnessing, especially as this version is billed as the ‘last’ Brucennial. (Through April 4th at 837 Washington Street, opposite the Standard Hotel.)

Installation view of the 2014 Brucennial, March 2014.

Peter Buggenhout at Barbara Gladstone Gallery

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Belgian artist Peter Buggenhout presents a New York audience with two of his well-known ‘Blind Leading the Blind’ sculptures through the 19th of this month in Chelsea. Composed of wrecked industrial or construction materials covered in dust, and appearing to be the remnants of some long-ago disaster, they represent a chaotic but forgotten past. (At Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 21st Street location, through April 19th).

Peter Buggenhout, installation view of ‘Caterpillar Logic II,’ March 2014, Barbara Gladstone Gallery.