GALLERIES—DOWNTOWN

Borna Sammak

Few artists are tracking the Internet’s erosion of our sense of reality with more verve than this young Brooklyn artist, who works, according to his C.V., “between the Food Bazaar on Manhattan Avenue and the Western Beef on Metropolitan.” Whether it’s a contorted sofa, inspired by a digital rendering of a more conventional design, or an eight-foot-tall pair of flip-flops, made of vinyl and canvas, Sammak’s objects suggest that the permeable membrane between real and virtual is less cause for concern than fodder for funny. Two paintings, made by applying hundreds of T-shirt decals to canvas—especially the dense blue composition of overlapping marlins, trout, and corny mottoes—prove that image overload can be beautiful, too. (JTT; Through June 17.)