This week’s choice gallery picks burst with color and eye-catching detail as the artists investigate the varied dimensions in which we experience our lives.

*            *            *

1. Tai Smith explores the obsolete at Helen Gory
2. Christopher Taggart’s composites of the dissected and recombined at Eli Ridgway
3, Tauba Auerbach explores the possibility of a fourth color receptor at Wiels
4. Lucy McLauchlan mixes psychedelia and primitivism to create monumental and provocative works at Triumph Gallery
5. Olek crochets her eventful year at Jonathan Levine Gallery
6. Sylvie Fleury’s It Might As Well Rain Until September presents a survey of the artist’s work made over the past two decades, alongside new site-specific pieces at Salon 94