Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo at Pace Gallery

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After years of traveling to the U.S./Mexico border, photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer Guillermo Galindo joined forces to create sobering images and sculpture inspired by struggles of migrants determined to overcome the border’s many obstacles. This installation view of their exhibition at Pace Gallery in Chelsea features an instrument made by Galindo of items recovered from the region and Misrach’s photos of tires drug behind border patrol vehicles to make a path in which footprints can be detected. (On view through August 18th.)

Installation view of ‘Border Cantos’ by Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo at Pace Gallery, June 2017.

Isabelle Fein at Jack Hanley Gallery

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A figure reclines in front of a baguette, friends walk in the woods and here, a young woman chats on the phone while resting on a huge container of an oversized art supply in ceramic sculpture and plates by Berlin-based artist Isabelle Fein. These diminutively sized snippets of life are an essay on the charms of the everyday. (At Jack Hanley Gallery on the Lower East Side through August 18th).

Isabelle Fein, Sunrise Glossy, ceramic, 7 x 4.7 x 2.7 inches, 2017.

Patrick Jacobs in ‘Double Down’ at Pierogi Gallery

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Patrick Jacobs – known for meticulously crafted dioramas set into the wall – offers another marvelously detailed scene in Pierogi Gallery’s summer group show ‘Double Down,’ which features artwork that involves doubling. Here, a toilet and its reflection suggest plumbing abundance in otherwise cramped quarters. (On the Lower East Side through August 12th).

Patrick Jacobs, ‘Two Heads Are Better Than One,’ styrene, cast neoprene, paper, polyurethane foam, ash, talc, starch, acrylate, vinyl film, copper, wood, steel, lighting, BK7 glass, interior box: 12.5 (H) x 14 (W) x 9.25 (D) inches, 2017.

Rachel Harrison in ‘Feedback’ at Marlborough Contemporary

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Rachel Harrison’s heavily textured, expressionist painting is electrified by fuchsia shorts, a dramatic punctuation at the end of the artwork. The shorts drag a potentially intellectual AbExp artwork into the banality of everyday life; now, it’s not hard to imagine the artwork on its way to the beach or the mall. (In ‘Feedback’ at Marlborough Contemporary through August 11th).

Rachel Harrison, Painting in Shorts, wood, concrete, acrylic and polyester swim trunk, 33 x 21 x 4 inches, 2013.

Tyler Haughey in ‘At A Languorous Pace’ at Sears Peyton Gallery

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Rife with appealing contradictions, Tyler Haughey’s photo of a New Jersey coastal motel is attractive for its saturated colors and modernist angularity but not as a model of contemporary hotel design.   Devoid of people and sometimes pictured out of season, the motels in Haughey’s series ‘Ebb Tide’ both evoke nostalgia and picture an on-going culture. (In ‘At a Languorous Pace’ at Sears Peyton Gallery in Chelsea, through August 11th).

Tyler Haughey, Gold Crest Resort Motel, archival pigment print, 32 x 40 inches, 2016.