This week’s gallery picks reveal floral bursts and vibrance reminiscent of Spring.

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1. Through a series of paintings, Robin F. Williams challenges the roles of American masculinity and traditional portraiture by replacing the idyllic female, or odalisque, with romanticized scenes of men in various states of idleness at P.P.O.W
2. For New Blooms John Bisbee is making a series of floral-inspired pieces that will include, among other works, a field of steel flowers at Shelbourne Museum
3.Paulette Tavormina works around the clock to produce photographs that look like paintings at Robert Klein Gallery & Ars Libiri
4. Kerry Miller dissects discarded books and rebuilds them into precisely-crafted, extraordinary works of art, through little more than scissors, watercolor and ink at Shooting Gallery
5.The Orgone Accumulators group show at Bleicher/Golightly/Gorman Gallery
6. Nature vs. Nurture concerns the importance of an individual’s innate qualities versus personal experience the exhibit reflects Molly Smith’s and Masha Keating’s interpretation and transformation of objects found in the natural world at galerie102