Photography
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BIG BANGS London artist Sarah Pickering’s large-scale photographs are on display in “Explosions.” The series captures controlled, simulated explosions using pyrotechnics for British law enforcement training. The explosions were meant to re-create the look of explosions caused by napalm, firebombs, land mines, and other deadly materials. A previous series focused on the falsefront “towns” used as disaster simulation training centers. Through Saturday, February 25, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 W. 25th St. at Tenth Avenue, no. 506, 212-255-8158, free.
FUTURE IMPERFECT Mary Mattingly’s digitally manipulated photographs are on display in “Second Nature.” Their subject matter is “the distant future of the human race.” In her imagined future, industrial civilization has fallen and people live as nomads, wearing their homes on their backs like snails. Ms. Mattingly creates these scenes by first sewing costumes, designing machinery, and posing the characters in each scene. The resulting photographs are tweaked digitally to create the final products on display. Through Saturday, February 25, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Ave., between 24th and 25th streets, 212-989-7600, free.
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