Through a resourceful approach to materials, Pacquing constructs entire physical and imaginative landscapes of meaning, beginning with the detritus of civilization—collected from the streets and transformed into open narratives on canvas and intricate installations.

Many galleries mount group shows in the summer, often with insubstantial results. So it’s always notable when one appears that’s been carefully thought through, rather than thrown together. Such is the case with “Galleon Trade,” whose starting point is the Manila Galleon, a fleet of Spanish ships that sailed between the country’s colonies in the Philippines and Mexico from 1565 to 1815.

My dear buddy Santi Bose would have turned 76 last week had he not left us early in 2002. One wonders how this singular magician who climaxed his tricks before kids and fellow oldies with his mantric incantation of “Sprikitiks Marabunta Smortskens!” would have fared well into the present, when his antic glossary of enchantments would have had to contend with AI and its own Pandora’s Box of disruptions.