This month, Hillyer Art Space is shoehorning a trio of wildly divergent exhibits into its three galleries.Melanie Kehoss, a lecturer at Georgetown University, makes exquisitely delicate paper cuttings set on rice paper (top), often with a theme of celebration. Some of her brightly toned works are eccentric (a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. set amid Chinese ornamentation, and four presidents wearing Mardi Gras-style masks) and others are sugary (romantic poetry paired with a variety of animals); her strongest works are
Lara Bandilla, a German artist, creates large-scale oil paintings perched on the boundary between photorealism and surrealism (middle). A number of her images have trouble bridging this difficult divide, but her strongest works are visually less fussy and almost cinematic, notably a selection of street views facing into the sun, a setting that produces extreme contrasts a la Garry Winogrand.
The third exhibit, works by half a dozen artists who belong to the Millennium Arts Salon, offer photographic approaches that are
On view to May 31 at Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Court NW, noon to 5 p.m. Mondays and Saturdays and noon to 6 p.m. Tuesdays to Fridays.