Michelle Lopez, "Banner Year"

The meaning of Lopez’s show is obscure, as is the reason for presenting her latest sculptures together, though individually they are evocative. One room is dominated by a metal column meant to represent a flagpole—or so you can surmise given the lanyard dangling from it and the audio track playing the sounds of a flag flapping in the wind. Another gallery holds a series of large, architectural-quality glass plates, leaned against the wall. The top half of each is mirrored, yet hazy, a result of Lopez casually pouring silver nitrate on the back of the glass, then exposing it to light. The effect is a bit like the reflective properties of old daguerreotypes, coalesced into indistinct, cloudlike forms.