Nate Lowman: Hanging Out

When Lowman was new in New York, friends gave him a copy of their house key, patterned with yellow-and-blue rave smiley faces, so he would have somewhere to stay. A copy of a friend's key is still the best housing deal in the city.

You walk into a room where every canvas is cut in the shape of a key, four to six and a half feet tall. Five are silkscreened photographs of real keys, with raw canvas left as the frame. Others carry hardware-store novelty patterns, Greek graffiti or names scratched into a bench in Rio. One is his own front-door key. Lowman told the Brooklyn Rail he dropped every other idea to make "a quiet, slow experience". The series also honors his late friend Benjamin Cho, whose 2008 dress hung with keyrings.

Go if you like one shape repeated with a new surface each time. Entry is free, no booking, at 519 West 19th Street, Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, until 24 October.