D.C. gallery shows at Jane Haslem, Brentwood, Connersmith, Carroll Square

David Hollowell is based in California, but he's reasonably well known in Washington, where he's shown for three decades at Jane Haslem Gallery. But the realist painter has reinvented himself, as can be seen in the gallery's current exhibition, "the mind / the line / the image." He's still a realist of sorts, but his newer work uses shading, modeling and perspective to depict perfected forms at play. In "Floating Balls," a pencil drawing, spheres levitate over a textured square, suggesting the P...