Urban Pall

The Ecuadorian artist, who snagged a CiFo Commission Award, has created more than 100 small acrylic-on-wood paintings that are gorgeous and atmospheric and offer a parallel view of the world.

He selected five paths in remote sections of his homeland and documented them "photographically" using Google Earth.

Courtesy of Israel Meza Moreno

Beautiful Landscape No.4: Must be in the eye of the beholder.

Details

Interrogating Systems: 2008 Grants and Commissions Exhibition: Through June 22. CiFo Art Space, 1018 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-544-3380, www.cifo.org

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• Amilcar Packer
• Pablo Cardoso
• Alejandro Almanza Pereda
• Johanna Calle
• Visual Arts

He then visited the desolate areas and photographed them from a traveler's perspective. Cardoso used the aerial and ground shots as a springboard from reality, painting the images identically enough to confuse.

The postcard- and paperback-book-size paintings are displayed floor-to-ceiling on the gallery walls; the satellite images contrast starkly with the artist's on-location portrayals of the sticks.

Cardoso's opus deserves pride of place here, but some viewers will find CiFo's more transgressive offerings more difficult to shake off after the show.