Last Chance

Catch it or Regret It

by Nadia Stadnycki

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Pointing her camera toward the night sky, Sharon Harper took multiple exposures on the same negative over minutes, hours, days and months (pictured). The effect is rather striking: The moon and stars, which move slowly but steadily across the sky, look like glowing white scratches in the darkness, rather than celestial bodies fixed in one position.

From the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery ruins to scenic farmland, Christine Lafuente's paintings depict both popular and lesser-known spots in NYC and its surrounding areas. In East River View With Bridge, a lone streetlight on the stony riverbank cuts through a gray mass of fog. The energy of the skyline reverberates in Manhattan Bridge, Evening, Lafuente's deep blues and thick pinks adding to the feeling of motion and excitement.

In this group show, four artists celebrate the process of painting and how light affects pigment in minimalistic abstract paintings. For Leptis Magna (Nocturne), Mel Davis applied 40 thin, transparent layers of paint with a soft brush so that the painting held more light, resulting in a deep, glassy look. Andrew Graham's Toucan, meanwhile, is a long row of boldly colored vertical stripes, each one sequenced to complement the color next to it — making them appear all the more intense.