In the exhibition “Staged”, artists Amir H. Fallah, John Frame, Alex Hubbard, Owen Kydd, William Leavitt, Dan McCleary, and Patty Wickman explore ideas of conscious display and dislocated narratives. In “Overshadowed,” Patty Wickman uses theatrical conventions to create a narrative replete with marvel and suggestion. Dan McCleary’s paintings, with their carefully composed scenes of ordinary interactions, alternatively deemphasize the dramatic. Amir H. Fallah approaches painting as an investigation, assembling “evidence” of his subjects’ identities by cloaking them with personal objects and patterned fabrics to protect them from his own interpretations. John Frame creates figures from wood and metal, adding found objects and sewing fabric bits for the clothing to set a stage for the characters to come alive. Throughout the video “Annotated Plans for an Evacuation,” Alex Hubbard transforms a used Ford Tempo by directing a continuous sequence of changes that flattens space as he creates a moving picture. By adding movement to static objects, Owen Kydd uses durational photography to expand the time specificity usually associated with photographs. William Leavitt’s drawing “House #3” encapsulates his interest in the “theater of the ordinary.” Leavitt plants an object reminiscent of old Hollywood in an otherwise “ordinary” scene, thus, like each of the artists in in this exhibition, capturing the artifice and glamour of the stage.