In their elaborate but subdued multimedia installation, Susan Gans, Kim Schnuelle, David Traylor, and Stu Witmer take as their starting point the notion that “an entire world can exist in a bowl of water.” Using brass, text, ceramics, photography, and audio loops, they deploy a series of bowls holding dice, larval shapes, and little metal squiggles. Processes of growth and randomness are suggested and contained in these half-full vessels. The sum meaning isn’t a specific place or state of being, but some kind of indeterminate becoming or flow. Also on view: A Consortium of Tangibles, a series of plastic geometric works by Gordon Nealy. BRIAN MILLER

Wednesdays-Saturdays, 12-5 p.m. Starts: Nov. 4. Continues through Nov. 27, 2010