Iraqi-born, Paris-based calligrapher Hassan Massoudy lauds the ‘gesture of one man towards another man’ as ‘better than pearls and coral’ in this elegant ink and pigment drawing at Sundaram Tagore Gallery. (In Chelsea through March 25th).
How do people manage to live in the world’s biggest cities? Dutch photojournalist Martin Roemers set out to answer this question in ‘Metropolis,’ a series that took him around the world to cities with populations of ten million or more. Roemer discovered that to survive is to focus on the details of everyday life, as he does in this colorful market in Lagos. (On view at Anastasia Photo on the Lower East Side through April 26th).
Farm machinery inspired the brightly colored forms of Vermont painter Altoon Sultan’s new paintings. Created in egg tempera on calfskin parchment, this glowing instrument is an alluring piece of rural Pop art. (At McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side through March 26th).
Many have pondered ‘the wages of sin,’ but few in quite the way that Michael Joo does in his Seven Sins series. Joo records the number of calories expended in pursuing anger, lust, pride and more, stamping the numbers on baking trays like these stacked floor to ceiling in Carolina Nitsch Project Room. Screen prints of the trays resemble historic photographs and ghostly traces of appetites indulged. (In Chelsea through April 1st).
While traveling near St Petersburg, Russia, photographer Cig Harvey found herself surrounded by goldfinches, and she captured this beautifully composed evocation of freedom. The photo is a highlight of the creatively curated, obliquely political group show ‘Birds of a Feather, ‘ at Chelsea’s Robert Mann Gallery. (Through March 18th).
