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Grace DeGennaro, “Moon Prayer.”

The opening of “Echolocation” was held on July 27 at Cynthia Winings Gallery. The group show is co-curated by Cynthia Winings and artist Josephine Burr and brings together the work of Dana Clancy, Grace DeGennaro, Crystalle Lacouture, Isabel Riley and Josephine Burr.

Each artist engages in a sustained, contemplative practice — through gesture, geometry, layering and repetition — to explore how we locate ourselves within a complex and shifting world.

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David Hornung, “Gandy Dancer.”

Borrowing its title from the natural phenomenon of echolocation, the exhibition becomes a metaphor for resonance and orientation, as the artworks serve as both signals and receivers, sending out inquiries and reflecting back the quiet forces that shape our lives.

The gallery is also presenting David Hornung in the Project Space with the show “Improvisations.” The exhibition features two parallel streams of his studio practice — oil painting and mixed media work that combines drawing with painted paper collage.

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Crystalle Lacouture, “Streaming.”

Hornung describes the two as “separate activities, painting being ‘plastic’ and collage, constructed,” noting that he never makes them in tandem, but shifts between them, allowing each to inform the other over time. His approach is improvisational — “an extemporaneous process that usually involves getting lost and then struggling to find my way home.” Though the visual connections are clear, he doesn’t seek to unify them; instead, he likens the distinction to “comparing singing to playing a musical instrument. For me, painting is like singing.”

The show will remain on view through Aug. 16.

Cynthia Winings Gallery is at 24 Parker Point Road, Blue Hill. Learn more at www.cynthiawiningsgallery.com, or call 917-204-4001.