Art
16. See Under the Skin
Fleshy power.
Asya Geisberg Gallery, through August 14.
Body horror has become one of contemporary art’s favorite metaphors, but this group show earns its unease. Bodies split, leak, and multiply. Paintings, sculpture, and photography are on hand as artists turn flesh into the site of vulnerability and power. Some works unsettle more than they explain, and that’s enough. —J.S.