The delicate graphite drawings at "Kin" are pretty, but they also have a terror element. Artist Dana Harel uses an extended meditation on human paws, and poses them as if to throw familar, funny animal-shaped shadows on white walls. It's innocent enough except for the scales and feathers growing where knuckles and wrists should be. The hands are hardly friendly, since they belong no more to humans than to the crocodiles, elephants, or birds they appear to half-be. The rabbit head-shaped lump in the python arm is especially disturbing, but rendered so beautifully you wouldn't want to look away even if you could.
April 2-May 3, 2009
