Geoffrey Gersten’s latest exhibit elevates household objects to iconography. His “Geoffrey Gersten Plays With Matches” at Altamira Fine Art transforms mid-century Americana into eye-popping works.

There are plenty of vintage matchbooks depicted, but also tin toys, bottle caps and other relics from roughly the 1930s to 1950s. All are rendered in clarity bordering on the hyperreal, each tiny detail magnified with immense skill and attention.