This week’s gallery picks showcase abstractions and cultural roots.

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1. Emily Mason’s rhapsodies in oil, composed from luscious color orchestrations and graceful brushwork that together mark the confident hand of a masterful artist. Color is the primary means by which Mason’s paintings are structured. Its forms and shapes, veils and layers, darts and furls ripple across her canvases and comprise singular argots of painterly sensibility and sensation at LewAllen Galleries
2. The exhibition Empirical Intuitive Absorption explores the roots of abstraction Andrea Rosen Gallery
3. An exhibition dedicated to the re-evaluation and rediscovery of three fascinating personalities from art history who instigated a material language that continues to inform contemporary art today. Comprising over 100 key works from American and European museums as well as international private collections, the show offers new perspectives on Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miró and Hans Arp, as well as a deeper insight into Dada and Surrealism at Hauser & Wirth Zürich
4. With Secret File, Lance Letscher’s complex collages turn into coded messages and patterns at TAI Modern
5. Combining modern African Diaspora, the aesthetics of science fiction, urban vernacular, and the idioms of abstraction, David Huffman’s paintings interrogate the politics of race through the increasingly subtle yet potent iconography of the basketball at Roberts & Tilton
6. William Swanson investigates manipulations of terrain and architecture. His latest work moves further into abstraction as he allows the pools and puddles of paint and dried cracked surfaces to create the movement and texture at Eleanor Harwood Gallery