Deana Lawson

Deana Lawson is known for meticulously composed, large-scale portraits made in domestic interiors. Her subjects tend to gaze directly at the camera with self-possession and defiance. The portraits are instantly recognizable as hers, and their impact is immediate and raw.

At Gagosian in New York, the two most striking new portraits are of a very large young woman breastfeeding a child, and of a masked man surrounded by pills. Photography was strictly prohibited at the opening. To see these pictures, you have to go.

The exhibition also introduces a new body of work, Edge Control. Its grainy images, drawn from surveillance cameras in beauty supply stores and recontextualized, address the dystopian reach of surveillance technology.