James Kalm takes a break from the studio and brings viewers a casual Thursday night stroll through three Chelsea galleries. Sylvan Lionni at Freight+Volume presents a series of conceptual abstractions based on solar panel designs. Peggy Bates explores a material technique of painting that employs nature’s forces in the analogues creation of natural forms at Gallery Thomas Jaeckel. Susan Dory rounds out this trio of abstraction with a series of striped pieces that seduce through the use of translucent planes of thick acrylic and tropical color schemes, at Winston Wächter Less