Blum & Poe exhibits a series of recent works by Japanese artist Kazumi Nakamura, on view September 11 through October 24, including three large-scale “Scroll” paintings. In Scroll Painting 12, Nakamura disrupts a vibrant red canvas with bands of yellow-gold lines, crossing to create a striking web-like pattern.Nick van Woert explores the idea of evacuation in a new body of work on view in “Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In” at ohwow Gallery. Highlights include North American Pine 3, which displays pine bark in a 97-by-66-inch stainless steel frame. The show runs September 12 through October 10. /SKEWS/, Australian sculptor Ricky Swallow’s first solo show at David Kordansky Gallery, opens September 12. Known for his skill with bronze and his ability to reconfigure and reimagine everyday objects, Swallow was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and he represented Australia at the 2005 Venice Biennale. The show runs through October 24.Ramsey Dau has taken the medium of collage as only a starting point, meticulously re-creating black-and-white images from a book on African art in acrylic paint. The paintings, part of a series called “Future Primitivism” that Dau has been working on since 2012, will be on view at KM Fine Arts September 12 through October 21.Photographer Torbjørn Rødland makes portraits that often pass into the realm of subtle surreality. In “Venetian Otaku” at Team Gallery September 20 through November 8, he transforms an otherwise simple, traditional portrait setup into a bizarre and disorienting landscape. A version of this article appears in the September 2015 issue of Art+Auction
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