Roman goddesses of the hunt, not. Margaret LeJeune’s series of color photographic portraits, in “The Modern Day Diana,” of women who take to the fields and forests with their weapons and bring their trophies back dead, show unassuming and ordinary people who betray no traces of blood lust. Shot in their simple rural homes and sometimes lounging on their beds in full dress, we often have only the slightest hint that LeJeune’s subjects are devoted to the pursuit of game. We see benign Kathi sitting back and taking a break from stitching up her jeans on a sewing machine; only at a second look do we glimpse two petrified fowl on the floor behind her and the gun racks above her head. If the National Rifle Association is looking for propaganda, they will find it here. (Michael Weinstein)
Through August 14 at ARC Gallery, 832 W. Superior, #204
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