‘The complexity of light’

“Shadow Inside 1’’ (gouache on panel), by Cambridge, Mass.-based Vicki Kocher Paret, in show “Shadow,” at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, though June 26.

She says:

"I love the drama of a good shadow: the severe contrast of light and dark, the layers of darkness that fall on various surfaces, the fanciful patterns created from flattened three-dimensional form. Painting shadows is a study in the complexity of light, and often through the process, exposes things unnoticed or unseen. The mesmerizing power and beauty of shadow serves to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary - a useful thing for the spirit."