‘Reimagined histories’

In Larissa Bates’s sh0w “Motherland/La Madre Patria,’’ at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn., Jan. 15-May 25.

The museum says Ms. Bates, whose are paintings are in gouache, egg tempera, and acrylic ink, explores her bicultural upbringing— ‘‘bridging the cloud forests of Costa Rica with rural Vermont, where her father was part of the experimental architecture community in Prickly Mountain. Her robust visual language stitches together fragments of objects, rooms and landscapes from her youth into reimagined histories, a framework through which she reconciles personal memory and feelings of cultural loss.’’