Björn Kjelltoft participates in a joint exhibition with U.S. artist Shana Moulton at The Center Gallery at Fordham University from November 20 to December 20. Their exhibition Star Systems brings together two artists whose art making encompasses video, sculpture, and performance to playfully interrogate the construction of identity, aesthetics and taste, and the interplay between high and low cultural forms. Kjelltoft creates an ongoing sculptural project in which he collects children’s clothing items, combines ready-made objects with hand-stitched letterman-style decals, and names them according to their resemblances to celebrities from cinema history.Susann Brännström and Peter Köhler both belong to an international group of artists calling themselves the Verus Painters, who approach painting as a laboratory where experiments are conducted. Their work is exhibited at Tobey Fine Arts through December 22. Brännström’s works synthesize abstract painting with Surrealist motifs. Her paintings deal with formal issues while also being loaded with psychological content, and make use of a simple construct where color, form and composition become their three most important elements. Köhler invites the viewer into a world immersed in folklore yet rich in contemporary awareness. His paintings freely cross the line between abstraction and figuration, giving credence to psychological states, physical realities, universal ironies and the brutal yet comic nature of the world around us.Recent paintings by Sigrid Sandström are exhibited at Edward Thorp Gallery in Chelsea through January 12. In depictions of icy landscapes, unpopulated northern seascapes, flows and glaciers, Sandström gives form to the romantic impulse of spaces that define our boundaries and imaginations, yet imposes her own definitions of physical and emotional experience through disruptive color and geometric invention. Ice caps become exploding shards of abstraction, with punctuations of bright color envisioned as sound-like, clarion moments in time and space, a sculptural element in a misty world of drifting and dissolving forms.In addition, Swedish artist Malin Abrahamsson has been awarded an MTA Arts for Transit commission to be installed at the LIRR station in Valley Stream, Long Island, in the spring of 2008. Abrahamsson's project will consist of two large-scale mosaic wall installations, a long mosaic banding decoration inside the platform waiting room, and a large terrazzo floor medallion. She is represented by Sara Nightingale Gallery.Image: Untitled, 2007, Sigrid Sandström