From order to chaos

“My Cup Runneth Over “(oil on aluminum panel), by West Newton, Mass.-based artist Marian Dioguardi, in her show “At the Edge of Seeing,’’ at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, through Oct. 7

She says: "When does ‘looking’ become ‘seeing’? In this series of observational paintings, I am asking ‘Where is that edge of observational order and where does it dissolve into visual chaos?’’’