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The Closing of Bob Krasner’s Times Square at Ki Smith Gallery.

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Furious light hums from Bob Krasner‘s vibrant  photography. Fuchsias, cyans, lemon and lime light, all cut between buildings as if done perfectly with scissors. The effect is rather abstract at first, like a collage mired in the deliberation of composition. But as you stare longer, and lean in just enough, the cityscapes emerge and begin to reveal themselves. All of this …

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Jarid Blue’s Light Baths Wash Over CIA Gallery.

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Light Baths is a Brooklyn-based photography and projection installation series that transforms bodies and spaces through projected light patterns. Brooklyn artist Jarid Blue uses precision-mapped projections to create what he calls an “armor of artwork” – turning participants’ skin into illuminated canvases that empower new forms of self-expression. The work exists in two forms: the immediate, personal experience of becoming …