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Abstracts for the opening

Gardner Museum showcases one of its own in first show mounted in new gallery

Victoria Morton’s “Salome’’ (above) and “You Hit It and It Takes You There’’ (below) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Victoria Morton’s “Salome’’ (above) and “You Hit It and It Takes You There’’ (below) at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. (DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF)
By Sebastian Smee
Globe Staff / January 20, 2012
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The Victoria Morton show in the main temporary exhibition gallery in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s new wing combines abstract painting with sculptural assemblages. It’s not the most auspicious beginning to the museum’s renewed contemporary art program, but it has some merits. The show comprises six large paintings, three smaller ones, and a handful of sculptures made from found objects.

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TAPESTRY (RADIO ON): New Work by Victoria Morton

Points of View: 20 Years of Artists-in-Residence at the Gardner

At: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, through May 28. 617-278-5156, www.gardnermuseum.org