© Lori Nix/ClampArt Gallery, a photo showing work in progress on Nix’s photo “Beauty Shop”

“Otherworldly,” a new exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, looks at artists who painstakingly craft miniature worlds by hand. The show includes work by several photographers who, by lighting and photographing their scale models, produce images that are at once realistic and ambiguous.

© James Casebere/Sean Kelly Gallery, “Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #8″

Using cardboard, paint and Styrofoam, photographer James Casebere created miniature versions of suburban neighborhoods as part of a series he began in the midst of the mortgage crisis. Two photos by Lori Nix, showing interiors after an apocalypse, are displayed along with the two detailed models she photographed.

Other photographers featured in the exhibition include Paolo Ventura, Didier Massard, Matthew Albanese, Michael Paul Smith, Oliver Boberg and the duo of Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz.

“Otherworldly” runs through September 18. For exhibit information, visit www.madmuseum.org.

Paolo Ventura’s Winter Stories are narratives set in a small fictional Tuscan village in the early 1950’s; an imagined place full of dream-like memories. A reception for the artist will be on Wednesday, December 9th, 6–8pm. Winter Stories will be on view December 10, 2009–January 23, 2010, at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, 537 West 24th Street, New York City. The exhibit is in conjunction with the release of a new monograph Winter Stories, published by Aperture.

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Statue of Liberty, New York, 1930, photographed by Margaret Bourke-White is included in New York Photographs …The Statue of Liberty, featuring works by Bruce Davidson, Margaret Bourke-White, Susan McCartney, Lou Stoumen, Mole & Thomas, Seneca Ray Stoddard, Louis Stettner, Nathan Harger, Paolo Ventura. On exhibit through August 28 at Hasted Hunt, 529 West 20th Street, NYC.