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).
In an homage to the way that reading has shaped her view of the world, Diane Samuels’ ‘First Lines’ inscribes the first line of text from each of the over 1,700 titles in her personal library on the pieces of handmade paper that make up this stunningly detailed wall hanging. (At Pavel Zoubok Gallery in Chelsea through May 20th).
A horizon line made of charcoal surrounds visitors to Teresita Fernandez’s haunting installation of burnt and burning landscape at Lehmann Maupin Gallery on the Lower East Side. Though Fernandez has explained that she wants to question the reality of the ‘virgin’ landscape described by early European settlers in North America by pointing to existing slash and burn farming methods, this handsome installation tantalizingly offers many interpretations. (On view through May 20th).
