This Saturday at the Brooklynite Gallery: Brooklyn’s Specter and German duo Various & Gould will “Make It Fit” with a labor-centric treatise of silkscreens, portraits and discarded materials. Specter’s cart-pushers and delivery boys take the spotlight in “hand-crafted” and “retro-fitted” medley of found objects arranged. Various & Gould’s vibrant work presents a distopia of body-part trading, “waltzing” workers. Opening reception is March 20, 7-10pm with musical guests Dj Cerock and Rifle Recoil. Read more »

Adam Stennett, who’s previously brought us meticulous marvels Underwater Mouse and Girl In Bathtub (NSFW), has a new painting in the “In Standard Time” group show at the Ana Cristea Gallery, opening tonight. Featuring ten young artist with internationally shifting residences, the exhibition seeks to find ground in the fluid, scattering state of our time. Painters address the ever-epic (historical antecedents, East vs. West), while Michael Brown contributes commentary via vinyl discs melted into utilitarian objects and Joe Diebes’ video art interprets critical music change. Come to closer leer at the details in Adam Stennett’s Soothing Syrup with two Poppies. It looks so pleasant, so very pleasant… (I WANT!)

“In Standard Time,” Feb 25 – Apr 3, Reception Feb 25 6-8pm, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York

Go See: Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood at the Yossi Milo Gallery

South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s photography exhibit Nollywood opens tomorrow at the Yossi Milo Gallery. Third largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood, Nollywood produces 1000 low-budget straight-to-video films a year. Tragic, raging, and rooted in traditional story telling, the Nigerian film industry’s focus lays on the supernatural, the symbolic, the melodramatic and the macabre. Read more »

 

A somewhat mysterious group exhibition “The Museum of Unnatural History” opens tomorrow at Clamp Art. It appears to feature photography, digital works, dioramas, taxidermy, birds, bears and Twinkie idolization. The museum exhibit spin-off views animals “through a pseudo-scientific lens,” says Brian Camp. Participators include Nicole Hatanaka, Amy Stein, Jill Greenberg, Blake Fitch, Marisol Villaneuva and Animal Logic author Richard Barnes.

“The Museum of Unnatural History,” Feb 25 – Apr 10, Clamp Art, New York

Mike Weiss Gallery presents Sofi Zezmer’s Remote Control and her manmade microorganisms. There’s something unsettling about these deliberately wadded plastic odds and ends, but if you want to see colorful cable ties, funnels, drinking straws and bicycle helmets form “irrational Duchampian hybrids of mechanical and biological systems” that comment on “consumption, mass production and overflow,” float on over to Mike Weiss and see this Frankenstein-MacGyver hoopla. But don’t blame us if you get neon nightmares of this thing buzzing around your room trying to eat you.

“Remote Control,” Sofie Zezmer, February 27 – April 3, Mike Weiss Gallery, Manhattan