June 5, 2006
FRANCIS CAPE

Cape’s color photographs are mounted in rustic wooden frames and hung above a yellow-painted wainscot, evidence of the artist’s ongoing preoccupation with a sort of post-structuralist cabinetry. The pictures themselves were shot last November, on a two-and-a-half-hour walk through the neighborhoods of Gentilly and St. Roch in New Orleans. Each shows a once comfortable bungalow, now vacant and uniquely wrecked by hurricane and flood; it takes a while to realize that, in each picture, a uniform line of mold, stain, or dust registers the high-water mark. Through July 28. (Murray Guy, 453 W. 17th St. 212-463-7372.)