NEW YORK--The Randall Scott Gallery's (111 Front Street #204, Brooklyn) first exhibition of the new year will be a solo show of works by MICA adjunct professor Cara Ober '05 (M.F.A. in Studio Art). Ober, who teaches in the Summer Low-Residency M.F.A. in Studio Art (MFAST) program, layers drawing, painting and printmaking into mixed media works that reinterpret sentimental imagery. The show, Glittering Generalities, takes place Jan. 7-Feb. 13 with an artist reception from 6-8:30 p.m. Jan. 7.

Ober combines culturally mediated imagery from children's schoolbooks, home décor, historical texts and greeting cards to explore notions of authenticity, appropriation, personal identity and vocabulary. Rather than illustrating the text, the images create discord, layering metaphorical and nonsensical outcomes over personal notation. While painterly gesture alternately reveals and conceals Ober's imagery, uniting disparate elements into a palimpsest where memory and commentary merge into a visual diary.

Ober teaches art at MICA, Towson University and Johns Hopkins University, and she writes art reviews for various art publications, such as Art US Magazine, Art Papers, Gutter Magazine and her own local art blog, bmoreart.blogspot.com.

Founded in 1826, MICA is among the top visual arts colleges in the nation. It enrolls 1,714 undergraduate and 218 graduate students from 48 states and 52 foreign countries, offering programs of study leading to the bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.), master of arts (M.A.), and master of fine arts (M.F.A.) degrees. It also offers post-baccalaureate certificate programs and a full slate of credit and noncredit courses for adults, college-bound students, and children. MICA is recognized as an important cultural resource for the Baltimore/Washington region, sponsoring many public and community-outreach programs-including more than 100 exhibitions by students, faculty, and nationally and internationally known artists annually-as well as artists' residencies, film series, lectures, readings, and performances.