A ghostly figure hangs from what appears to be a dead tree. It's hard to imagine that this evocative canvas is from the same artist. The palette is more subdued, more of a whole cloth, not used to fill in the blanks. The paint also has a kind of radiance, not the muddiness found in so much of Sirlin's work. But best of all, there's an other-worldliness about this painting, a sense of mystery that is not an easy thing to capture.
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Mini-galleries spread art around Sara Agniel may have closed her Wickenden Street Gallery to move her base of operations to New York. As she has done in the past, Agniel has curated a series of shows to mark Perishable Theatre's annual Women's Playwriting Festival. Those are sprinkled from Perishable, at 95 Empire St., to Olneyville Square's Hive Archive, where a half-dozen of Jill Colinan's quirky cloth dolls are on display in the window. It's great that Agniel has been able to create mini-galleries across the city, but in truth, they are not great spaces for displaying art. You can walk right past Elizabeth Keithline's delicate wire mesh sculptures in the window of the Lerner Building at Westminster and Eddy streets and not notice them because of the window glare.