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Boston art galleries: Works by Liliana Porter and more

Worlds populated, colorful and intimate

By Cate McQuaid

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 11, 2012

Liliana Porter’s deceptively charming paintings and assemblages at Barbara Krakow Gallery are populated with her trademark tiny figurines, which bring whimsy and a certain emotional fortitude to the worlds she creates for them. Those worlds unfailingly represent art and art theory, questions about surface, gesture, and object. A 1-inch-tall figure, swept up in paint, becomes a stand-in for the artist and the viewer, for any human with a narrative-realist bent, confronting the non-narrative world of form and color.

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