Keep them away

Work by Rachel Loischild in her show “Quarantine Islands,’’ at the Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Mass., through May 24.

She says that the show “delves into the historical intersection of immigration and public health policies, tracing a narrative that spans from the 14th to the 21st Century. Developed over more than a decade of research, this body of work uses large-format color photography to capture the landscapes of former quarantine stations, pest houses, and quarantine hospitals across the U.S., where immigrants, the poor, and people of color were forcibly isolated to protect the broader population. These sites, imbued with invisible histories, serve as a tangible link to a past where public health measures, while crucial in controlling diseases like smallpox, disproportionately burdened those quarantined.’’

Drama queen

“Vaneeta,’’ from the show “Little Dramas,’’ by B. Lynch, at Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Mass., through Jan. 11.

Mysteries of the past

Installation view of the show “Not a Story to Pass On,’’ of Jennifer Davis Carey and Scarlett Hoey, at the Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Mass.

‘Visionary Boston’

“Through a Glass Slightly” (1979), by the late Stephen Trefonides, in the show “Visionary Boston”, at the Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Mass., Feb. 18-June 4.

The museum says:

“In the mid-twentieth century, one would not have described Boston as the center of the art world.    However, despite a decades long struggle with modernism and with Abstract Expressionism gaining ground in New York, a parallel but distinct movement was stirring in New England.  The relationships that flourished between painters, sculptors and photographers mid-century resulted in creative output that has shaped contemporary art in Boston into the twenty-first century.”

'Journey through creation'

“Fossil 283, 2015” (archival pigment print),. by Boston-based Katherine Gulla, in her show “Passage,’’ at the Danforth Art Museum, at Framingham (Mass.) State University, through Feb. 28

Katherine Gulla's show is about her three series “Path,’’ “Falling’’ and “Fossil.’’ The museum says that these series represent, respectably, “the process, trials and remains of the artist's journey through creation. Her work is subtle and meditative, quietly reflecting nature's response to climate change and using it to bring forth feelings of absence and loss.’’

The Common in Framingham Center