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Also: African artists鈥� distinctive techniques, creative takes with paper and wood, and ethereal self-portraits of handmade prints.

Four shows creatively capture flora and fauna via various media, and a sculptor鈥檚 work explores the use of space and functionality amid an essential individuality.

Simone Leigh, Maremi Andreozzi, and a Native art show curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith are among this season鈥檚 major highlights.

Lines, circles and blocks are the basic ingredients of hard-edge color-field painting, a style that developed in the 1960s.

As a painter, Robin Rose has often followed musical cues, naming his abstractions after songs that prompted them.

Both artists in Adah Rose Gallery鈥檚 鈥淢ay You Live in Interesting Times鈥� are storytellers, but of rather different kinds.

There will be more plastic than fish in the world鈥檚 oceans by 2050, the World Economic Forum estimated in 2016.

This year鈥檚 Bethesda Painting Awards appear to split equally between abstraction and representation, a divide that was once more of an ideological rift than it is today.

Written language can be sculpture, incised in clay or stone.

Brian Dupont鈥檚 paintings, on view at Adah Rose Gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, through December 31, are uniquely transfixing for several reasons. One is their lean, industrial look 鈥� they鈥檙e oil on metal.

The most monumental thing about 鈥淢icro-Monuments II: Underground鈥� is the way the sculptures are arranged in a semicircle at IA&A at Hillyer.

Things are just a little askew at the Korean Cultural Center. Ji Yoon Hwang and Soyoung Kim, the artists of 鈥淪urreal Dialogue,鈥� are not extremists.

At Adah Rose Gallery, Brooklyn artist and writer Brian Dupont has curated "Residue," an exhibition that celebrates contemporary artists' gleeful