A show that dwells on the perversity of painting, closing February 4

A show about gray as a color and a metaphor, limning its way between grim concreteness and silver linings.

The overriding mood in the gallery is inexplicably hopeful, perhaps a subliminal effect of the Buckminster Fuller term, “Tensegrity,” given to the exhibition. Fuller’s theory of tensegrity, the harmonious synergy and tension of parts within an integral structure.