RECOMMENDED Vaporous images evoking past family Easter gatherings haunt Kashian’s latest works. With his New American Gothic series, he dismembers found photos of African Americans hanging out in their living rooms and attending weddings and recreates the images through paint, graphite and collage. In the new pictures, faces are missing yet bodies remain or smiling faces now blend together forming a duality. He whites out the background and sometimes splotches shades of paint on the faces making them unrecognizable. The pictures convey surface representation of what seems like a good time, but by removing certain elements, the exteriors become skeletal. The second part of his show involves vinyl record covers. “Bellafonte (best of)” takes the image of the artist, makes a copy and crisscrosses them over each other. On Dolly Parton’s “Best Of” cover, everything is scratched out except for the track title “Touch Your Woman,” relaying a sexual connotation. A photo from the 1970s of an old man standing in his garden seems perfectly normal, but looking closer, he grasps collaged limbs. Kashian’s experiment in extraction and superimposition changes context and meaning to a degree of unfathomable intrigue. (Garin Pirnia) Through November 19 at GREEN LANTERN GALLERY
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