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Casualties of Beauty, painter Sarah Chuldenko’s first solo show, opens April 24th at Fake Estate. Chuldenko’s work is described by the gallery as “a provocative collision of buoyant breasts, carnivorous plants, topographic flesh, oil slicks, and roadside IEDs” that simultaneously evokes creation and destruction.

(Sarah Chuldenko, Beirut (detail), 2008. Courtesy: Fake Estate.)

April 25th-27th, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council opens its doors for Open Studio Weekend. Look for work by artist and feminist Simone Leigh.

(Announcement for Open Studio Weekend. Courtesy: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.)

Xenia Hausner’s You & I opens April 25th at Forum Gallery. Hausner combines painting and photography in her compositions, effectively challenging the assumption that photography presents reality.

(Xenia Hausner, All of Me, mixed media, 2008. Courtesy: Forum Gallery.)

Alice Anderson’s new film The Dolls’ Day opens at Espace Croisé on April 26th. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s novel Morella, The Dolls’ Day is an allegorical tale of a daughter’s restrictive relationship to her parents.

(Alice Anderson, The Dolls’ Day, 2008. Courtesy: Espace Croisé.)

Ephemera, work by Marie Sivak closes April 26th at A.I.R. Sivak’s carved alabaster and limestone sculptures combine with projected or embedded film to create a ghostly effect. Her work appropriates materials traditionally associated with male artists and introduces them to materials and techniques historically confined to “women’s work.”

(Marie Sivak, Pneuma, carved alabaster, video, stainless steel, mixed media. Courtesy: A.I. R Gallery.)

April 27th through June 8th, take a stroll in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for Artwalking: Bedford Avenue. Over thirty artists have been invited by eyewash gallery to create storefront installations in a marriage of Art and Commerce. Feminist artist Catya Plate is included in the show.

(Announcement for Artwalking: Bedford Avenue. Courtesy: eyewash gallery.)

Feminine Transcriptions, recent work by Olga Alexander, will be open through May 5th at the Koussevitzky Art Gallery at Berkshire Community College. (For more information contact bchilla@berkshirecc.edu)

(Olga Alexander, Feminine Transcriptions (series, detail), mixed media with collage on paper, 2007. Courtesy: Artists Space.)

Phyllis Rosser’s solo show Nature Reassembled is now open at Ceres Gallery through May 17th. The show includes sculptural work comprised of river-washed roots and branches as well as paintings of flowers magnified in up-close compositions.

(Phyllis Rosser, Weaving Fence. Courtesy: Phyllis Rosser.)

Then and Now and Forever, images by Boo Ritson, is now open, through May 17th at BravinLee programs. Though Ritson’s subjects are caricatures, her unconventional working method dismantles all presumptions. By styling and literally painting her models in order to ultimately photograph them, she invokes performance, photography, and painting all at once.

(Boo Ritson, The Sunbather, archive digital print, 2007. Courtesy: BravinLee programs.)

Look At Me!: The Performative Impulse in Recent Chinese Photography remains on view at the Williams Center Art Gallery of Lafayette College through May 24th. Curator Dan Mills states that the exhibition does not claim to comprehensively represent its subject, but to merely present 15 artists who are the subjects of their art in various ways.

(Chen Qiulin, Ellisis’s Series No. 3, color photograph, 2002. Courtesy: Chen Qiulin, Max Protetch Gallery, and Lafayette College.)