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Addicted for a good while to placing girls’ and dolls’ clothing and accessories on photo-sensitive paper and coming up with glowing and pristine black-and-white negative impressions of her subjects, Karen Savage now has taken the step of scanning the little dresses and blouses directly into the computer and producing color images of the garb that exude a new sensibility of worn and faded childhood memories. Poignant and piquant, rather than fantastical, Savage’s scanned studies awaken flashbacks of going through old and forgotten garments stowed in boxes in the attic or the backs of closets, as when we see, in her banner work, a blouse embroidered in aqua patterns that must once have been ironed and shiny white, but is now wrinkled and dappled with blotches of tan, yellow and red—the stained traces of the spills and scrapes of outrageous childhood. (Michael Weinstein)

Through October 10 at Packer Schopf Gallery, 942 W. Lake.