Brooklyn-based artist, professor, curator, and lecturer Melissa Zexter employs the antiquated art form of embroidery to interesting use in her work. Bethany, featured above, is a silver gelatin print that has been partially sewn over with thread. Using her prints as a platform, Zexter creates "colored textured drawings which serve as webs and grids over the photographs." The results are combinative images which simultaneously scatter and concentrate their focal points. Zexter's work will be exhibited in the group show "Portrait," (also featuring work by Chuck Close and Alice Neel), at the Kleinert/James Arts Center in Woodstock through October 30. (845) 679-2079. For more images visit www.lesleyheller.com. Contact: Mzexter@aol.com.