“Geometries for an Imagined Future” is the title of Josiah McElheny’s solo show at James Cohan’s Tribeca gallery. The artist explores geometry through the development of crystal like sculptures with irregular geometric characteristics. The asymmetrical surfaces  of the hand formed and polished glass cones and polyhedra  offer the viewer a unique insight  into geometry.

At first glance the prisms seem to be regular polyhedra, but looking closer you can see that side are not regular polygons.

McElheny proposes that the diversity and individuality found in the irregular geometry of these forms can lead to solutions to today’s societal questions.

“Prismatic Refractive Geometry I” features a large grouping of the glass prisms in a mirrored display case. The reflection off the irregular faces of the clear forms bouncing off the reflection of the mirrors creates the sense of infinite possibilities.

Susan Happersett

David Zwirner’s Upper East Side gallery is presenting an exhibition of Ad Reinhardt’s abstract paintings from the 1940’s.  Most of the work is quite gestural. But two small scale Untitled canvases from 1940 incorporate interesting geometric elements.

This first painting features an underlying square grid pattern.

This second painting has even more mathematical connections, possessing both horizontal and vertical lines of symmetry. This work also explores self-similarity in the nine rectangles and the overall dimensions of the canvas.

Susan Happersett