Brooklyn performer, writer and sculptor Lee Relvas offers tantalizing fragments of figures in her first solo show at Callicoon Fine Arts, enticing her audience into trying to grasp who and what is being portrayed. In the front, a sculpture titled ‘Deciding’ wears a friar’s belted robe, a twisting figure at rear is ‘Thinking,’ and a reticent woman is ‘Withholding.’ (On the Lower East Side through May 21st.)
In this boldly textured, late-career work by the Spanish artist Josep Grau-Garriga, soothing blue color and thick nautical-like rope recall the sea. Part of a handsome exhibition that presents work from the last forty years of the artist’s life, including early work evoking political violence, this piece evokes summons both the tranquility of the beach and excitement of the sea. (At Salon94 Bowery on the Lower East Side through June 3rd).
After WWII, Todd Webb moved to New York City and took to the streets, enthusiastically documenting the eccentricities of the everyday – from quirky storefronts to colorful characters. (On view in Chelsea at The Curator Gallery through May 20th).
Two teardrop shapes stand side-by-side on the gallery wall in Trish Tillman’s exhibition of evocative sculpture at Asya Geisberg Gallery. ‘Dressed’ identically in red, teal, and blue stripes and ruched black leather, the anthropomorphized fashionistas shelter a slim yellow protuberance as alarming as a pharoah’s ureaeus.
Life revolves around interior décor in Margeaux Walter’s photos at Winston Wachter Gallery in Chelsea. Matching hair colors, clothing and food to the floor tiles, Walter asks if lifestyle dictates design or vice-versa. (On view through May 13th).
