Hunter Pressing on Fallen Game with Rifle 2, 2010 © Stan Gaz/Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City

With his second solo show at the gallery, Stan Gaz presents “Ensnared.” The opening reception for “Ensnared” will be Thursday, May 17, 6–8pm at ClampArt in New York City, the exhibit will be on view until June 23rd.

“Ensnared” considers themes of loss, transformation, and memory. Throughout these images, ensnarement is allegorized by the actions and effects of the archetypes of the hunter and the hunted. Gaz finds these roles to be oddly inter-changeable, caught in a cycle in which each is incarcerated by the other—trapped by longing, manipulation, and other forms of daily violence.

Divided into three suites or chapters, “Ensnared” includes painted photographs of vintage butterfly specimens, images taken during winter hunting expeditions in the Western United States, and haunting prints of an astronaut armed with a butterfly net out to catch fleeting samples of a vanishing world. The exhibition also includes video footage of the astronaut in Central Park, along with a massive, twenty-foot, stainless steel sculpture representing his net.

—Text courtesy of ClampArt, New York City

"Untitled (Kiss)," 2007. © Frank Yamrus

Originally inspired by the onset of a midlife crisis, “I Feel Lucky” is Frank Yamrus‘s highly personal series of self-portraits, revealing the joy and sorrow of passing through his 47th to 53rd years. The opening reception for “I Feel Lucky” will be tonight, February 16, from 6 to 8pm, at ClampArt in New York City. The exhibit will be on view until March 24.

Girl in the Bottle, 2011 © Marc Yankus/Courtesy of ClampArt, NYC

In his third solo show with the gallery, native New Yorker Marc Yankus presents new work from Call It Sleep, as well as a series of recent photomontage still lifes. The project derives it’s name from Henry Roth’s 1934 critically acclaimed novel, about a young Jewish boy’s coming of age in the slum of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Through Yankus’s photographs, he nostalgically portrays the city’s architecture, moody streets and pulse with his unique personal vision. The opening reception for Marc Yankus’s Call It Sleep will be Thursday, November 3, 6–8pm at ClampArt in New York City, the exhibit will be on view until December 17th.

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Woodchuck, 2005 © Jesse Burke/Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City

Jesse Burke‘s Intertidal will be on view though July 9th at ClampArt, New York City.

© Ion Zupcu, “November 11, 2009 #2,” Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City

Romanian-born photographer Ion Zupcu examines the cube in his third solo exhibit at ClampArt. The minimalist images of the cube play on perception of scale and solidity, become monolithic architectural structures and delicate transparent mosaics, as well as hexahedronic whispers, through Zupcu’s lens. Ion Zupcu’s Painted Cubes will be on view though May 28th at ClampArt, New York City.