Exhibitions

MEMPHIS TOP PICK

OWEN WESTBERG: THICKETTops Gallery / 400 S. Front St. March 22 - May 17th

Owen Westberg’s paintings make me picture the inside of an eye. Not so much the retina, lens, and optic nerves—that frequently mentioned conduit of vision, which beholds the external world and packages it for perception—but the flickering, gelatinous, sclera-wrapped stuff that props up the whole enterprise of seeing. The vitreous body, the aqueous humor. On five-by-seven slices of aluminum flashing, and slightly larger slabs of sanded birch, Westberg paints still lifes, views through a window, an...