Allison Miller digs deep into the world around her, scattering peripheral elements like the tiny rocks and dirt one kicks up in an abandoned city lot or scanning for misplaced artifacts. Some elements in Miller’s paintings reappear, as they sit atop slightly modulating, near-monochromatic fields, spaces that encompass both the innermost and the universal.

No Vacancy, the current exhibition at C24 gallery, takes some time to appreciate since there are no visible inhabitants in the colorful interiors depicted, aside from the occasional cat. What we do get are distinct inklings of persons suggested in all of the painterly roomscapes touched off by the magnetic perspectives, dazzling color, and lofty eye levels.

The art of Allie McGhee evokes such a youthful and uncompromising focus on variations in scale, texture, technique, and color theory that it defies any preconception one might have of an eighty-one-year-old artist.

The first thing visitors may notice about Roy Dowell’s paintings is the mystical aspect of the work—the ritualistic nature of the forms, even the otherworldly feel of the narrative that falls somewhere between the more abstract paintings by Marsden Hartley and the wild visions of the hallucinatory interstellar traveler Adolf Wölfli.