This week’s gallery picks explore moments in time and suspended relationships.

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1. Brendan Monroe’s Morphology investigates dreamlike, intimate, and imagined worlds that evoke the tension between reality and surreality at Boiler Room SF
2. Soey Milk explores a lavish world of colorful textiles and beguiling figures, consisting of works ranging from oil paintings on panel to exquisitely rendered graphite drawings on paper. Milk’s attention to detail, color and organic form brings forth a curious state of mind that is both unexplainable and intimate at Hashimoto Contemporary
3. In Mel Kadel’s Sky’s Eyes, her subjects appear to be filled with a quiet purpose set amid a landscape of patterns and evanescent colors at Slow Culture
4. Presenting one hundred years of portrait photography in West Africa through nearly eighty photographs taken between the 1870s and the 1970s. The installation seeks to expand our understanding of West African portrait photography by rendering the broad variety of these practices and aesthetics at Metropolitan Museum of Art
5. Distinct in her use of bold color and free flowing texture, Hueman compares and contrasts conflicting ideologies to create masterful works that are at once balanced and unsettling. Her latest work featured in this exhibition is a look into a singular moment in time, spliced, dissected, and manipulated through intersecting lines and planes; juxtaposing images that are simultaneously beautiful and grotesque, abstract and figurative, geometric and organic at Mirus Gallery
6. In From Cali With Love surf, skate, punk, but also urban art, psychedelia and underground comics are only a few of the cultural matrices of the California Dreaming that re-emerge from the works of Jeremy Fish, Russ Pope and Zio Ziegler, where daily life is mixed with imagination, in the pursuit of an immediate and narrative art, able to overcome the disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art at Colombo Arte