Exhibits explore archetypal images and resonance through everyday objects

In the galleries: Big messages conveyed in close quarters

Review by Mark Jenkins

August 19, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

With curtains, paintings and a few other elements, Heather Goodchild has staged a miniature museum in the smallest gallery at IA&A at Hillyer. The individual parts of the Toronto native’s “Violet Peach” aren’t unusual, but they combine to express what the gallery’s statement calls an “unsettled state of consciousness.” Goodchild’s installation is on view alongside Jeremy Jirsa’s mixed-media work and Lynn Alleva Lilley’s photographs.