Memories in watercolors

Detail from “Vida Vieja” (watercolor), in her show until Feb. 7 at the Hess Gallery of Pine Manor College, in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

This multimedia exhibit displays the artist's watercolor paintings in a video slideshow along with a voice-over from Correá. “Vida Vieja” is Spanish for "old life.’’ So her paintings depict her childhood in Colombia. Each painting is associated with a memory, which she discusses in her video slideshow. She describes going to church, grinding corn, playing outside and other nostalgic experiences. She admits, however, that her memory isn't perfect, represented by the use of watercolor. She explains, "Memory is not 100 percent accurate; with watercolor, I can portray my memories in an abstracted reality."

'Me, too' in the struggle

“Me, too’’ (oil), by Kat Masella, in the show “The Personal Is Political,’’ at the Hess Gallery, at Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., through Feb. 20. The show is named after a 1969 essay by Carol Hanisch. The gallery says: “Each piece tells a different story of female political and social struggle, with the underlying hope of inspiring others to do their own part in working towards equality.’’

Transcendental photography

 

Images by SARAH BILLOTA (top) and MOLLY LAMB in the show "Inventory of Reverie: 5 Women Photographers,'' at the Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

The layered effect

"Winter Painting','  by DAVID BARNES, in his show at the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., through Jan. 20.

When I was a kid, I couldn't sleep in gleeful anticipation of  blizzards, which were particularly dramatic at our house on the top of a windy hill near the sea.  Now I still can't sleep but the snow seems like a blanket  of death.

Political penumbra

 

"Shadow,''by DAVID BARNES  in his show though Jan. 29 at the Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

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