Atrocity. The word alone conjurs up brutal horror laced with sadness. The Atrocity Exhibition crashed into Thierry Goldberg Projects (5 Rivington Street, NYC) on June 28 and will continue to break you out of your sense of disillusionment until August 28.

For Ahmed Alsoudani, atrocity is the violence of war going on in his homeland of Iraq.

For Ben Grasso, it’s an explosion.

For Molly Larkey, it’s the atom bomb.

For Wendy Heldmann, the aftermath of an atrocity can be just as devastating as the actual event.

As if to extend their disparate examples of atrocities, the artists use different mediums — drawing, sculpture, painting — to make their statements. Some are brutally lifelike, others are abstract. No matter what the subject matter, method, or style, the result is always the same: the works underscore our own humanity in the face of terror.