This week’s artists invite you to look a little closer – things aren’t always as they appear.

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1. To create mixed-media objects, assemblages, collages, and performances, Dan Bainbridge draws from nature, history of representation, Western mythology, childhood, adult fantasies, and popular culture. Bainbridge’s menagerie remind us of medieval compendia of animals’ symbolic meanings that made no distinction between animals native to Europe, exotic species, and imaginary beings at Art 3
2. In addressing systems of both taxonomy and display, Max Hooper Schneider’s Accidental Menagerie becomes a set of conditions rather than a discrete “plot”. Made up of over 25 specimen trays and created through a horizontal process of arrangement, the components of this work are hung vertically to create a visually permeable “wall”. Composed of many counter-taxonomic parts, these trays include rogue specimens, ornate detritus, and fragments from lived experiences such as a well worn band t-shirt or the contents of an anonymous junk drawer at Kayne Griffin Corcoran
3. Letha Wilson cuts, tears and shapes her photographs, pushing and pulling the prints into place and then encases portions of the composition in cement. She explores the magnetic pull of the American West, alluding to landscape’s intrinsic role in our own myths of reinvention, endless possibility, and inevitable promise Grimm Gallery
4. Liu Bolin disappears into the background at Houk GalleryGalerie Edwynn Houk
5. Andrew Dadson heightens the relationship between painting and the surrounding physical world by experimenting with painting’s foundational components (color, texture, medium, and support) and by bringing awareness to the body and its modes of perception at David Kordansky Gallery
6. Duane Hanson’s lifelike sculptures at Serpentine Galleries