Dirty, Hairy

Zwirner & Wirth isn’t the only gallery taking a studied approach to their summer season. The Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts has assembled an international roster of painters, photographers, and video artists to pay homage to portraiture as a medium for a group show titled “FACE: Scavenging Identity,� up through August 11. Parisian artist Renaud Muraire, who has several works up in the show, deifies modern beauties, dressing our “icons� with the same sort of signifiers once used to suggest divinity and the sublime. Icon #2 (left), is part Odilon Redon (with an uncanny resemblance to his 1890 Les Yeux Clos), part early Renaissance, and part [enter upscale designer name here] perfume ad (dirty hair, inexplicable ecstasy). —Rachel Wolff