in lieu

At In Lieu in Highland Park, Pauline Shaw’s solo exhibition, “the Blues”  hones in on human dependence and over-extraction of natural resources. Pulling an array of specific examples that span America and China (where the artist split time while growing up), Shaw renders various symbols as copper sculptures and engravings that are integrated with hand-felted wool tapestries. In some works, the swirling copper shapes that are overlaid onto the wool backings have been oxidized, their bright blue pigment soaking into…