Eight local artists are highlighted from the citys portable works collection in More Than.” Some are well known, like Charles Krafft and his delft china Disasterware series, which includes an elegant pistol and a painted series of plates rendering the Hindenburg disaster. Claire Cowies delicate landscapes we also like. Most everything is small, clustered on the walls in groups by each artist. (Thirty pieces are included in all.) But the largest and most prominent work is on the floor: the 1998 Dipodies by Ruth Marie Tomlinson, which amounts to a mysterious row of torso-less green legs. Theyre actually composed of sewn rubber stuffed with sand. The pointy toed U-shapes are poised to march. But to where and what purpose remains unknown. Theyve got no heads, no leaders, no eyes, no sense of direction You could imagine them being assembled into not-so-scary monsters in the factory of a Pixar movie; theyre like the anatomical components of some creature that never got off the drawing board. Wheres the rest of them? Perhaps crumpled up in a designers wastepaper basket. Or waiting to be sewn and stuffed with more sand, before theyre set into motion. (Closed Sat.-Sun.) BRIAN MILLER
April 8-June 30, 5 a.m.-7 p.m., 2009
