D.C. galleries: 'Form Transformed,' 'Kaddish and Narrative,' 'Play by Play'

The traditional idea of sculpture is of shapes chiseled out of -- or, more poetically, discovered within -- blocks of stone. There are a few modernist examples of that approach in "Form Transformed: Five Sculptors," at Touchstone Gallery. In two of Michelle Frazier's small pieces, human heads emerge from alabaster, a relatively soft mineral, and both she and Janathel Shaw fabricate heads in ceramic stoneware. But contemporary artists are more inclined to remix and remake than to craft a single i...