Woodland vertigo

“The Tree Told Me To" (photogravure print from a digital, photograph, mounted on aluminum frame),by Alexandra Ionescu, in the group show Learning with Trees: Artists and Ecologies of Connection, at HallSpace Gallery, in the Dorchester Section of Boston, through Aug. 14.

— Image courtesy HallSpace Gallery

The gallery says the show brings together 10 artists “whose works highlight trees and their connections to all parts of the natural world. Some works are depictions of wooded landscapes, while others focus on single organisms standing tall in a forest. Other artists use materials - pigments and structural elements - derived from trees themselves, allowing them to, in a way, tell their own stories.’’

Ferocious future

By Juls Gabs, in the show "Landscape of Future Era Today,'' at HallSpace, Dorchester, Mass., through Oct. 12.

The gallery says:

“The show looks ahead at the landscapes of tomorrow and their potential to be scarred by pollution, smog, industry and extreme weather. The show ‘challenges us to rethink our vision of nature and confront the impact of our commodities,’ according to an artist statement, and juxtaposes this grim future with the ‘grandiosity of past indulgence.’’’

As repetitive as snow

"Snow Day,'' by Emily Berger, in the group show "Painting Is Not a Good Idea,'' at HallSpace, in the Dorchester section of Boston, through Jan. 7.

The gallery says that this show  "invites viewers… to challenge views about what art should be and how art should be expressed. Guest curator Jo Ann Rothschild selected work from abstract painters Emily Berger, David Fratkin, Colleen Randall and Elizabeth Yamin. Though each artist works abstractly, their works are vastly different. Emily Berger, for her part, notes that the  "paintings and drawings are based on a structure of repetitive and deliberate gesture that is intuitive but carefully considered." 

Angst in Indochina

In Cambodia

In Cambodia (oil on canvas), by BEA MODISETT,  in HallSpace gallery, Boston.