Strange dreams

Folk music 78s from the 1920s offer a window into a strange and forgotten world, before mass-media homogenization made everything bright and familiar. It’s a small wonder that guitar-slinging singers today gravitate toward those odd sounds. John Tarahteeff isn’t one of those, but he paints like it, and his riffings on the inner weirdness of Renaissance-era European painters are as haunting as the warbling of any modern-day Buell Kazee wannabe. You can witness some of Tarahteeff’s visions in a show titled In Place of Her, now at Solomon Dubnick Gallery, 2131 Northrop Avenue, through this Saturday, November 2. The gallery is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Also on display are works by Monique Passicot and Corey Okada.