The End Is Far by Olek

Camouflage crochet in a site-specific installation at Jonathan LeVine

Vibrant and painstakingly executed, the crochet installations from Polish-born artist Olek offer striking embellishment to familiar spots. Blanketing NYC landmarks such as Wall Street’s Charging Bull and Alamo (the Astor Place cube), Olek’s unmistakable work has thrilled residents and tourists alike by adding new dimension to classic monuments. Her latest undertaking, The End Is Far, is a sight-specific installation at Jonathan LeVine Gallery that brings …

Paul Pretzer

Uncanny simians star in the painter's latest solo show at Marc Straus

Currently on view at Marc Straus Gallery in NYC, an exhibition by Paul Pretzer brings primates, cardinals and painterly expression together for a carnivalesque look at the history of art. Riffing off of classical compositions—most notably Spanish masters Velázquez and Goya—the Dresden-born artist takes an attitude of irreverence along with impressive skill and respect for traditional technique. The works on display mostly focus on still …

In Between

Keun Young Park's metaphysical paper collages

A sculptor by training, Korean-born Keun Young Park masterfully arranges shredded paper into textured self-portraits. After photographing herself in various poses, Park digitally manipulates and resizes the images, prints them, then tears them up by hand into thousands of pieces. From there she reconfigures each sliver of the wreckage into uncannily intricate portraits made of scale-like paper shreds. Opened yesterday, Park’s most recent exhibition “In …