Fragile ceramic organisms

ACAI Gallery & Studios

“A Thousand Silent Screams” by Dana Bilello-Barrow, porcelain wall installation.

“A Thousand Silent Screams” by Dana Bilello-Barrow, porcelain wall installation.

Where: ACAI Gallery & Studios, 7425 Winding Way, Fair Oaks; (916) 966-2453; http://acaistudios.com.
Artists’ reception: Saturday, April 15; 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Through May 13.
Hours: Wednesday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; or by appointment.

To look at Dana Bilello-Barrow’s ceramic vessels is like peering through a high-powered telescope at planets: round surfaces covered with reddish swirls of gas clouds. But some of her two-dimensional wall-hangings resemble what one sees through a microscope: groupings of round, cell-like forms bunching together, forming her fragile ceramic organisms. See her work along with Maureen Gilli’s in Inner Echoes at ACAI Gallery & Studios through May 13.