“Angels, Demons and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet,” now on view at the Phillips Collection, presents an opportunity to wonder about the relationships that nurture, support and promote creativity, as well as the paintings on view.

The Ramp Gallery at McLean Project for the Arts is a tight squeeze to host large format work that pairs a palette of flesh-colored Pantone with Jackson Pollock, but that is what Solomon T. Wondimu has achieved with his Skin Color Project. The color in this series comes from digital photographs of arms from people with various racial backgrounds and flesh tones. Sections of each arm were then analyzed and broken down into a color…