Zeng Fanzhi

Preview: written before the show opened

The one sculpture is an obelisk of blue onyx, banded blue and cream, and the gallery says it looks like something dug out of one of the planets in the paintings around it. Those paintings are imagined landscapes from another world, in Zeng Fanzhi's first New York show in over a decade.

Each canvas gives you two pictures. From across the room, colour laid side by side rather than mixed on the palette pulls together into rock formations, water and pitch-black horizons. Walk up close and it breaks apart into fields of pure pigment. Zeng paints wet-on-wet with several brushes at once, so every new layer drags through the one still drying underneath, and the press release compares the result to both pointillism and the pixelation of digital images.

It follows his show in Venice during the 2024 Biennale. Entry is free with no booking at 542 West 22nd Street, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, from the opening reception on Thursday 5 November, 6 to 8pm.