Contradictory influences and potent memories inspire the artists in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Peter Doig creates potently colorful works that primarily show people and architecture in landscapes of seductive beauty. These pictures are memories of and yearnings for a wondrous dream world that seems strange and at the same time familiar to us at Fondation Beyeler
2. Almost all of Howard Hodgkin’s works refer to memories and personal experiences but deliberately avoid the representational. A self-described painter of “pictures of emotional situations”, Hodgkin offers insight into his subjects with titles but it is his intuitive use of color that evokes a specific place, object or feeling at Nicholas Metivier Gallery
3. Filtered through memory, Marianne Van Lent’s work examines the mysterious forces of the physical world and investigates our fragile position in the universe through the intersection of natural and technological modalities at The Painting Center
4. Lady Shalimar Montague’s fragile and exuberant drawings depicting the reframing of her early life as a famous performer at White Columns
5. Jackie Saccoccio’s newest paintings balance various contradictory forces – explosive energy, atmospheric and diaphanous space, majestic compositional sensibility, and radiant color combinations, sometimes joyous, sometimes tinged with melancholy at Corbett vs. Dempsey
6. Zao Wou-Ki was born in China, but spent most of his life abroad. His work combines influences from traditional ink-and-wash-paintings and modernist abstraction at de Sarthe Gallery