Lutz Bacher

The ever-devious pseudonymous artist (who declines to reveal her real name) was a fixture on the Bay Area scene for many years, but this exhibition, by turns funny and moving, celebrates her recent move to Manhattan with winks at two artistic forebears. The show’s title, “For the People of New York City,” is nearly identical to a famous painting series by the minimalist Blinky Palermo (Bacher replaces his “To” with a “For”), while its central work revisits Andy Warhol’s iconic black-and-white film of the Empire State Building, which Bacher filmed in color; projected onto multiple pieces of Plexiglas, it fills the room with blurry reflections, like a portrait of a collective memory. In the gallery’s eighth-floor space is a pile of thousands of plaster-cast remnants that evokes an ossuary, distressingly reminiscent of a certain September day in 2001. Through May 9. (Greene Naftali; April 3-May 9.)