'Surreal waiting game'

Left, “So Sophisticated” (oil on canvas), by Alexandra Rozenman; right, “Witness’’ (oil on canvas), by Anita Loomis, in the show “Untold Stories, at Fountain Street Fine Art, Boston, through Dec. 23.
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To see a video of the show “Untold Stories,’’ by Anita Loomis and Alexandra Rozenman, please hit this link.

This is the show’s last weekend at Fountain Street Fine Art, Boston.

From Artscope’s review:

“The immediate condition and activity conveyed within the pictures made by painters Anita Loomis and Alexandra Rozenman is extrapolation. …{T}he paintings allow and welcome conjecture. The artists have created environments that focus the viewer’s attention towards inference, encouraging the seer to intellectually step into and become part of vague spaces and curious scenes — to participate in a surreal guessing game.

“For the viewer, the stories within the compositions are open-ended and puzzling, being directed in possibility by the depicted visual objects and glimpses of human form. We approach these compositions by asking what’s going on. Some paintings depict relatable imagery such as domestic interiors, landscapes and active scenes, while others are expressive and fantastical with abstracted and speculative shapes and figures.’’

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.''