Paper Girls, Melissa Stafford's recent series of Polaroid images, began rather simply. Reading a magazine on her bed one night, Stafford started taking photographs of the women in the advertisements, framing the magazine photographs with her own hands, as in Girl #5. Stafford has shown at Firlefranz Gallery in Albany and will exhibit portraits from Paper Girls this fall at the Albany Institute of History and Art as part of the group exhibition "The Institute Show." Portraits from Paper Girls are also on display through September 25, part of the group show "Six Practices Converge," at Red Phenix Gallery, 123 Warren Street in Hudson, a temporary exhibition space. For information: (518) 758-7886.