Vanity, vanity....

"Enlightenment'' (oil on canvas, detail), by Anita Loomis, in her joint show "Untold Stories','' at Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, through Sept. 30.

The gallery says:

"Anita Loomis's narrative-driven paintings are playful and cartoonish, poking fun at some of our less attractive characteristics such as vanity, clumsiness, and frustration. The paintings encourage the viewer to notice how beautiful a line, color, or shape can be; how funny human behavior can be; or how interesting that something so plain and unassuming can touch souls or create laughter.''