Gallery Exhibition: "Strange Loops" and "Matinee/Matiné"

There's no beginning or end to the works in this show, which play with the ongoing and sometimes dizzying back -and-forth between abstraction and figuration, language and image, finite and infinite. Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent

New York artist Lilliana Porter has compared the experience of looking at her work to watching a movie in a theater with the lights on. In her latest video, "Matinee/Matine," kitschy figurines in a seried of vignettes, we're crazy about the little rubber ducky munching on lettuce. June Wulff, Globe Staff