What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in October

This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Dennis Kardon’s wonderfully strange paintings, Klara Liden’s green vistas and Sheryl Sutton’s mesmerizing movements.

Two Bridges

Dennis Kardon

Through Oct. 26. Lubov, 5 East Broadway, Manhattan; 347-496-5833, lubov.nyc.

Dennis Kardon has been painting bodies for more than 30 years, but his approach has changed significantly over that time, as you can see in “Transgressions,” a compact survey at Lubov. Some of the earliest canvases, made in 1990, capture fragments of models Kardon hired from advertisements in downtown newspapers.

There is also a wonderfully strange “Slashed Venus/Healed Venus” (1989/2024), painted after a photograph of Diego Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus” (1647) that shows Velázquez’s painting after it was slashed with a meat cleaver by the suffragist Mary Richardson in 1914. (Interestingly, the same painting was targeted by climate-change protesters last year.) Kardon slashed his canvas, too, but “healed” it with thread, and made a few recent adjustments.

Other works similarly question the boundaries between bodies and paintings. “Seeing Through Paint” (2010) is an eerie depiction of a mannequin holding a kaleidoscopic orb. There are also paintings that recall the curious compositions of Paula Rego, with human and animal figures crammed into the rectilinear spaces of a canvas.