I saw “The Middle” at the beginning, when it looked different than it will at the end. The clever conceit of this show, curated by Jessica Cochran of Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, is that its content will transition, over a three-week period, from work by one artist to work by another. As of this writing the space belongs to the beguiling domestic scenes of Amanda Greive. One painting, Anatomy of Despair, shows a woman leaning against a shower stall wall, her body obscured by glass blocks. Greive’s also got a thing for pears, which recur in several pieces. In a still life called You Are I Am, Part 2, a pear coated in milk or cream drips, suspended, over a bowl while eggs and eggshells sit nearby. It’s a strange, slightly lurid, delicately composed vision of homemaking.
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