GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

DAMIAN LOEB - His name has become a catchword for unmerited success, but that doesn't happen to every callow young Photo-Realist. It's Loeb's technique that has kept him afloat in the face of so many critical torpedoes. Slick, precise, radiant, with a faint fuzziness that distinguishes it from airbrushing or Richterish blur, Loeb's touch has a kind of quasi-Venetian finesse. It's lovely. His iconography is a different matter. The borrowings from megaplex favorites like "Alien", "2001", "Poltergeist", "Friday the 13th", and "Jaws" are transparently puerile, almost painfully desperate to come across as a highbrow take. Through June 28. (Mary Boone, 541 W. 24th St. 212-752-2929.)