This week’s gallery picks explore journeys and the trials that lay within.

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1. Joshua Podoll ‘s paintings become energized through the bravado and angularity of brushwork and intensity of color and contrast at Christopher Grimes Gallery
2. Roy Lichtenstein Expressionist works at Gagosian
3. Cut ‘n’ Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City revisits early uses of collage to trace its evolution as both an aesthetic technique central to architectural representation and a cultural practice of layering, juxtaposition, and remix that configures the city at MoMA
4. Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet reveals a rare cross-cultural artistic dialogue among three prominent artists at Parrish Art Museum
5. Phil Frost’s “The Solace of the Sword” references the struggle with the solitary confinement required to create at Ace Gallery
6. Andrew Schoultz’s work generates a high-energy impact with an overpopulation of meticulous renderings and controversial themes that resonate with cataclysmic force at  The Monterey Museum of Art