We can’t help it: Every time we see a picture, realistic or abstract, we try to read it as some kind of image of the world. Our savannah-trained brains make it so. In this piece, called Stage and now in his solo show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, Thomas Scheibitz decided to go with that flow. The sculpture is something like a 3D realization of the “world” we’re likely to read out of one of his paintings. If you were to make an Alex Katz-ish painting of Stage, you might end up with a decent Scheibitz oil.

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