A show of new work by California conceptualist John Baldessari opened last night at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, and it’s curiously zeitgeisty. The show is called “Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads,” and it consists of, well, precisely those. That is to say, Baldessari has created a series of three dimensional prints mounted on shaped foam — they look like paintings that have thickened into sculptures — that depict vignettes of faces frozen in expressions of concern, anxiety, befuddlement, bafflement, the sundry moods signaled by raised eyebrows and furrowed foreheads. In the gallery’s press release, Baldessari is quoted calling his pieces “timely, saying ‘Aren’t we all worried?’” And in fact they are perfect emblems for this troubled and uncertain moment. One can imagine any of them as a reaction to the roller-coaster ride that is each morning’s news. This may be a stretch, but the brows and creases, all stark directionals painted in primary colors, recall nothing so much as the Dow’s recent ups and (mostly) downs, as depicted in those alarming line graphs we’ve all become far too adept at parsing. It’s a brilliant if entirely unintentional touch.