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Randy Wray, Nest, 2022-25. Image courtesy of the artist and Karma.

“Prehistory” by Randy Wray
Where: Karma
When: Through July 3
Why It’s Worth a Look: Sample the primordial soup of life with Randy Wray’s globular abstractions, which evoke the peaceful life cycle of an amoeba, or perhaps the soft entanglements of mosses and fungi. The artist aims to bring his imagery to vivid life through these visualizations, with tendrils curling, cells multipyling, and hearts pumping.
Know Before You Go: Wray’s protean forms are amorphous, moving between the realms of the living, dead, and mutating. The artist challenges viewers to contemplate the long-term lifespans of the works, which he has developed during ten years of studio experimentation.