Allen’s motifs engage with a language of utopian and metaphysical ideals that have historical incidence–her foliage gateways nod to the tapestries and stained glass windows of William Morris, her glowing focal points summon the hallucinatory luminescence of Agnes Pelton’s depictions of peaking light. Here, notions of temporality and eternity are soundlessly forming and disappearing. It’s the obscuring of one celestial body by another.For nearly forty years Shaw has been creating an expansive body of work–paintings, drawings, installations, sculpture, video, and sound–elucidating America’s social and spiritual histories. For this current exhibition the artist continues to illustrate overarching themes of belief, doubt, and politics–addressing such prescient topics as failing economies and crumbling power structures.