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What’s up at Boston-area art galleries

By Cate McQuaid
Globe Correspondent /  January 22, 2013
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He cleverly intersperses his own photos with layered images from the “Dick and Jane” book series, to show how far we’ve come, or fallen, since then. Beside pictures from there of a girl thrilled by her image in a store’s three-way mirror, the photo “Jesus and the Polly Pockets” depicts a meaty clash of values. It captures the interior of a girl’s dollhouse: Dolls in their underwear lie on the floor, while against the painted fireplace, the dollhouse’s owner has placed a prayer card. Jesus appears to have risen and sent the dolls into a dead faint.

UPSODOWN; DIAGRAM; GREER MULDOWNEY: 6,426 per km2, ROBERT NIGHT: Rated G

New Art Center; Drive-By Projects; Gallery Kayafas, 61 Washington Park; 81 Spring St.; 450 Harrison Ave., Newtonville; Watertown; Boston MA 617-964-3424; 617-835-8255; 617-482-0411. http://www.newartcenter.org; www.drive-byprojects.com; www.gallerykayafas.com

Closing Date:
Feb. 22; Feb. 23; Feb. 16

UPSODOWN 

At: New Art Center,

61 Washington Park, Newtonville, through

Feb. 22. 617-964-3424, www.newartcenter.org

DIAGRAM  

Drive-By Projects, 81 Spring St., Watertown, through Feb. 23. 617-835-8255, www.drive-byprojects.com

GREER MULDOWNEY:

 6,426 per km2

ROBERT KNIGHT: Rated G  

At: Gallery Kayafas,

450 Harrison Ave., through

Feb. 16. 617-482-0411, www.gallerykayafas.com

Cate McQuaid can be reached at catemcquaid@gmail.com.end of story marker

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