"Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration," exhibited through March 12 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, is a group of collaboratively produced paintings initiated as a creative experiment by Pakistani artist Muhammad Imran Qureshi in 2003. Qureshi contacted five other Pakistani painters, all alumni of the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, but now living in different cities around the world, with the suggestion that each artist start two new paintings. Each work was then sent to another artist in the group, who applied a layer of imagery, marks, or other processes, and the painting was passed along until all of the artists had added to each of the 12 works. "Karkhana" includes these miniature paintings, as well as five additional paintings by each of the artists. The Urdu term karkhana describes the kind of painting workshops patronized by Mughal emperors who ruled the territories of present-day India and Pakistan. In these workshops, multiple artists worked on a single painting under the direction of a master, each contributing visual components according to their particular skills. (203) 438-4519; www.aldrichart.org.