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Abelardo Morell straddles the uncertain border between dislocation and enchantment. He transforms the everyday, exalting it. He tames the exotic, domesticating it. And in his best-known photographs, which show camera obscura images superimposed on blank walls, he literally turns the world upside down. "A Room With a View: The Photography of Abelardo Morell" at Amherst College's Mead Art Museum includes 32 images by the Cuban-born photographer, who also teaches at Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Career retrospectives are rarely this small. That's all right, since career retrospectives are rarely this good. Through Jan. 20. 413-542-2335, amherst.edu/mead
- Mark Feeney
Sweet, tart
For all the Candy Land effects of Andrew Masullo's paintings - the bold colors, the biomorphic forms - they are sweetly modest, too. Each of the small canvases now at osp gallery has been painted over again and again, so the surface is scarred and weathered, and sometimes you can discern the pale shadow of a different work underneath. Meanwhile, pieces pop with welcome. "Andrew Masullo: Recent Paintings," through Nov. 24. 450 Harrison Ave,; 617-778-5265, ospgallery .com
- Cate McQuaid
