This week’s events shine for their vibrant use of color and texture as well as their straddling of modernity and tradition.

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1. Deedee Cheriel utilizes seemingly disparate influences set within a landscape inspired by the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest at Pure Evil Clothing
2.  Gert and Uwe Tobias dissolve the boundaries between craft & fine art, abstract concept & unconscious fantasy, modernity & tradition at White Chapel Gallery
3. Claire Rojas’s artwork takes a different turn at Nicolai Wallner
4. Duane Michals’s, The Painted Photograph, focuses on his current series of hand-painted tintypes at DC Moore Gallery
5. Canan Tolon’s painting appear to be purely abstract – but are they? at Von Lintel
6. Zhuang Hong Yi’s stunning textural artworks at Leslie Sacks Contemporary