‘Reality of spaces’

“A Conversation with Sparrows” (oil paint, india ink and charcoal on unstretched canvas), by Imo Nse Imeh, in the group show “The Miracle Machine: A Black Artists Think Tank ,’’ through Dec. 8, at the Augusta Savage Gallery, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Photo courtesy of UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center

The gallery says the artists in the show:

“C}onsider themes of identity, belonging, brotherhood, and Blackness, while acknowledging the reality of spaces that allow us, or that deny us, and that ultimately change us."