Showcasing six artists from across the region, this juried group of solo exhibits at Arlington Arts Center covers a wide range of themes including the paranormal, miniatures, sprawl and inventions.

Jeremy Drummond and Jennie A. Fleming both explore sense of place as it relates to how we view our homes in the city as well as in newly constructed housing developments. Drummond highlights intersection street signs with interesting names that make for odd juxtapositions, such as Culture/Whitewash (Spring Melt) and Pilgrim/Native Landing (Gooseberry); all real names. The street signs are brightly lit and set against a large blank background of pastel colors which are evocative of the idealistic promise of suburbia. Fleming creates photo collages of different city and street-scapes and produces them in different forms, from an interactive flip book to vinyl banners, or the bookmarks and magnets one might find in any road side shop.

In Memoriam, by Erin Williams, is a room filled with fictitious and fantastical inventions by Williams’ great-great-grandmother, who was an inventor in the 19th century. This exhibit is almost like walking into a history museum and learning about past cultures. Humor plays a big but subtle role here. A gilded rifle juts from the wall and an ejected net hangs down from its muzzle and is spread out on the floor. On the wall, beside the rifle, is a crisp black and white photograph of a composed woman sitting with rifle in lap and a bear caught in a net just over her shoulder, hung from a tree (pictured). Another photograph in this series shows a forest setting with a bear on hind legs. Poking fun, the bear is clearly someone in a costume. The other inventions found in the room are large and bulky and highly complicated. One such piece titled Apparatus for Chronological and Anamnestic Aberration, or Time Machine is a contraption made from copper, brass, wood, leather, glass, latex, fabric, steel and casters.