Jean Ploteau and Johanna Ringertz

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The classic European beach tent, brightly striped and festive, might not seem like the proper venue for a serious art gallery. The round canvas enclosure is only big enough to change into your swimsuit, yet visiting Stockholm artists Jean Ploteau and Johanna Ringertz have filled one with a small array of works, and you're encouraged to crowd inside with your friends. But it's a cloud-patterned tent also appreciated from the outside, since it's set within the larger gallery housing their installation Day Dreams and Night Realities. You're squeezed into intimacy with the paintings—as with a magazine-photo collage, the altered portraits of artists in their studios, that Ploteau has placed in an uncomfortably tight passage between two walls. You're forced to look closer. (Hey, why do those guys all look the same?) Over in her corner, Ringertz's painted tarp seems to pour text onto the floor, where the words—based on the dreamy misapprehension of LED alarm numerals—congeal into little black stones on the floor. Or beach, depending on your frame of reference. BRIAN MILLER
Thu., May 5, 5-8 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays, 12-5 p.m. Starts: May 5. Continues through May 28, 2011