Familiar figures from the Hudson County art scene try out a new medium: the banner. Let the wind carry me: flags of the north side of the lake. We often refer to flags as standards. In its ideal and most recognizable form, a flag is a flat rectangle on the printed border of an atlas, or in a bumper for an Olympic event, or a social media profile. We know what it stands for: a nation, a tribe, a sexual orientation. It signifies something specific to the standard-bearer, and, a

On Hoboken: its beauty, its fecundity, its low-lying charms. An idyll in acrylic and tassels: Frank Hanavan's "Mumblypeg" Frank Hanavan’s Hoboken is wet. In his streetscapes, surfaces glisten. The sky is rarely glowering, but it does seem full; ready to have something to say, or wrapping up something that it is busy saying. The canopy of foliage that hangs over the streetcorners feels saturated with moisture. Even the shadows on the sidewalk are puddle blue. Businesses have t

A reintroduction to the body, its impulses, its carnal demands, and its holy mysteries. Slumber party: Leigh Cunningham's sleeper The first thing you’ll see upon entering the gallery at Deep Space (77 Cornelison St.) is the shadow-outline of a woman’s leg. There it is, on a chartreuse background, sticking straight up in the air with a curvaceous bare foot inches from the ceiling. That’s all of the subject of “Lemon Lime Toe of God” that the oil painter Delilah Ray Miske is wi