A return to good old-fashioned painting, this 42-artist group exhibition is a welcome respite from the predictable deluge of overly conceptual art. Merlin Carpenter's Gallows invokes cluttered studios, in which artists maddeningly struggle to create still lifes with ambitious verisimilitude; the inclusion of an actual easel beside the painted one invites a dialog on the contemporary function and efficacy of pigment on canvas. Elsewhere, stylistically disparate works are secretly in cahoots over the collective viscosity of oil, acrylic, and enamel — whatever form they may take when applied to canvas, carpet, wood, or shredded fabric.