Imagine an alternate ending in which Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, the Woodsman and the Big Bad Wolf join forces in a sewing circle to create an army of spawn from the detritus of the urban/industrial world encroaching on their simple way of life, and you might get an idea of what glares at passersby from the window of David Salow Gallery in Chinatown. Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor doesn’t lend such allusion to her works, preferring to call her larger-than-human, dog-headed anthropomorphs “No Names,” but she does so knowing that the sculptures themselves are richly allusive. Playful, and even daring to be cute in a way that disarms viewers but in instances disarms the work, O’Connor’s horde calls to mind Disney’s perpetual promise of “dreams come true,” as well as Mary Shelley’s words describing the dream that... More >>>