Parker Gallery

Gladys Nilsson (b. 1940) was an iconic member of the Hairy Who, a group of artists that banded together in Chicago in the 1960s to exhibit their wildly idiosyncratic work. The group of six, which included Jim Nutt and Karl Wirsum, privileged graphic and bold figuration that was playful and imaginative as much as it was irreverent. Nilsson’s solo exhibition, “Old Lady Drawings” at Parker Gallery assembles three decades of the artist’s output, with several works that were created this…

There are only a couple more weeks to catch Luam Melake’s “Sensitive Forms” at Parker Gallery. The solo show hangs in the gallery’s small upstairs gallery and features several weavings and a modular furniture set. The furniture, titled “Better Together,” is made with wood, acrylics, and polyurethane that can be arranged in a variety of ways, encouraging reconfiguration and experimentation. Melake’s weavings also bend the medium to new experimental ends. In “Outpouring,” the artist weaves long rubber tubes, whose fronds…