'Deconstructing and rebuilding'

“Heart Relic” (conte and charcoal on paper, fabric, thread, found wood, soil), by Luba Shapiro Grenader, in her show “Lament & Renewal: Restringing the Heart, Reviving the Self,’’ at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, July 5-28.

The artist, based on the Massachusets North Shore and an immigrant from Russia, says:

“This work is a contemplation on personal loss and global change. Seeing those close to me suffer through illness and pain is excruciating; global suffering echoes this personal grief. While I find beauty in the act of drawing, I find solace in deconstructing and rebuilding. Threads make connections between the drawn elements and beyond – connecting the physical and ethereal. Cloth reimagines the drawings by mending the forms and extending the images.’’