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In That Ruined World or This by Tom Long

Critic's Choice: Tom Long | Jon Parot was the first artist I saw in Chicago creating supercool decorative land-scapes with hot pink mountains made from triangles. While he’s moved on to other things, trendsters are still busy cranking out knockoff geodesic doodles. But Brooklyn artist Tom Long sets a breathtaking new standard for epic eye-candy vistas in “Looking for Friends in the Diamond World” at Lisa Boyle. Evoking Chinese landscapes, Indian miniatures, medieval European panel paintings, and three-dimensional modeling software, his exactingly patterned abstractions of dreamlike spaces suggest the technical fanaticism and pantheistic gloss of a classic Yes record. Next door to Long’s solo exhibit (his first) is a joint show at Western Exhibitions that extends this binge of visually intoxicating painting: Melissa Oresky’s dense biomorphic formalist works and Tomiko Pilson’s sumptuous ethno-kitsch. Through Sat 4/14: Wed-Sat noon-6, Lisa Boyle and Western Exhibitions, 1821 W. Hubbard, second floor, 773-655-5475 or 312-307-4685. —Bert Stabler

Sandwich Plate, 1967-1987 watercolor by Wayne Thiebaud, at Rhona Hoffman | 118 N. Peoria | 312-455-1990

Plate 36: Tampoco (Not [in this case] either), one of 60 etchings from the series “Disasters of War,” circa 1820, by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, with prints referencing the series by Jake Chapman and Dinos Chapman, opening Thu 4/5, 5-7 PM, at DePaul University Museum | 2350 N. Kenmore | 773-325-7506

Three Gorges Project Construction—Shipping Locks, photo from a series by Clark Everett documenting the construction of China’s hydroelectric Three Gorges Dam, with a reception Thu 4/5, 6-8 PM, at Northwestern University Dittmar Gallery | 1999 Campus, Evanston | 847-491-2348

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