Mowbray, 34, is an artist who scoffs at art's commercialism. "Sales are not my concern," he says. "My aim is to explore." It's no surprise, then, that he doesn't have gallery representation, but Mowbray is a favorite at local alternative spaces and teaches at Wellesley College. His witty paintings ($9.95-$1,500) debunk notions of masculinity. One series riffs on fishing books from the 1940s and 1950s. Mowbray reproduced the pictures in saturated color, then wiped out portions with white. "These guys represented a specific time, the Leave It to Beaver generation," he says. "White is an absence of space, presenting nothing." andrewmowbray.com"