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Rapid change often engenders a sense of estrangement. Sometimes it is experienced as a buzz of otherworldliness, other times as the presence of the surreal in the everyday. In “An Uncanny Order,” the work of Fierro, Lipps and Mahmoud embraces the creative potential of alienation, exploring its psychological, social, physical and environmental dimensions in distinct, intimate and colorful ways.

Sebastian Fierro’s paintings have strong compositions that satisfy the viewer as both geometric abstractions and trompe l’oeil representations. They depict imaginative spaces that are both domestic and …