Charles Ray

You could describe Ray's work as a postconceptual foray into trompe l'oeil, though not necessarily in the traditional sense of making something look real when it's not. His approach is more like fooling the eye with shifts in form and material to produce uncanny effects. This show, for example, is highlighted by a sculpture resembling a truck mushed into a baled block after a trip through a car crusher. Milled out of a solid chunk of stainless steel, it sits in the space drained of color—more like a ghost than an escapee from the junkyard.