While the images are dazzlingly clear, there is a consistent distortion in the cropping and brush work that conveys a feeling of loss -- a loss of the lost moment or, perhaps, lost hope. Even in the series of small canvases focused on the windshields of passengerless cars, "Auto 1-3, WD, 98," Havekost proffers an expression of modernist existential angst that is perhaps more gut-wrenching that anything found in the films or videos upon which his paintings are based.

Eberhard Havekost at Anton Kern (June 20-July 21) 558 Broadway, 2nd. fl., New York, New York 10012.