Lower East Side: Gallery Walk

A neighborhood loop that swings from a dreamy Lennon-inspired painting show into an AI-powered Western funhouse, picks up the year's most pointed meditation on time, and ends with Kate Steciw quietly demolishing the difference between an image and a picture.

5 exhibitions

Jane Swavely: Strawberry Fields

Magenta Plains

Paintings and pastels named for Lennon's lyric of 'beautiful confusion' — meaning approaches and withdraws as clarity dissolves.

May 7 - Jun 20

Nick Doyle: Collective Hallucinations

Perrotin

Denim collages and an immersive AI psychic parlor pairing American Western mythology with its digital successor — same con, new medium.

Apr 24 - May 30

Amorelle Jacox: Mothers of Time

Management

Seven paintings imagining time as born of seven mothers — Light, Shadow, Cosmos, Void, Matter, Movement, Number — arrayed like clock ticks.

Apr 29 - Jun 7

Greg Parma Smith: Things in the Air

Hoffman Donahue

Optical paintings of repeated geometric forms that hover between flatness and depth — fully analog despite looking digital.

Apr 11 - May 23

Kate Steciw: Pictures

OSMOS

Composites from stock photography, screengrabs, and orphan downloads, printed on canvas. Pictures in the Crimp sense.

May 7 - Jun 27