Contemplating the nature of reality with this week’s choice gallery picks!

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1. Heidi Norton delves into the connotations between the functionality of light and darkness in nature, the visible and invisible and how these modes of seeing are separated through time and space at Wolfe Contemporary
2. Chroma National seeks to draw comparison between maximalist image making and the remnants that are left on the earth’s surface following the passing of an ecological or anthropological presence at Corking Gallery
3. Regina Scully’s work poses the question: are there other worlds and spaces we can enter beyond our known “reality,” a place where additional meaning is given to forms and their relationships to each other? at C24 Gallery
4. By photographing and collaging the High Line, Jennifer Williams interrogates both the intersection of artistic media and the intimate relationship between place, privilege, and development at Robert Mann Gallery
5. Inspired by 17th century royal portraiture and 19th century society portraits, Jamie Vasta staged costumed performers who have become fixtures in the shrinking San Francisco burlesque and drag communities Patricia Sweetow
6. Joshua Meyer’s paintings thwart the notion that there can be any such thing as objective reality at Dolby Chadwick