In the galleries: Manipulating nature at McLean Project for the Arts

"Drop, Hover, See-Through, Lean" -- the subtitle of a three-artist exhibition at the McLean Project for the Arts, is appealingly straightforward. Barbara Josephs Liotta's sculptures do seem to hover, although they don't disguise the strings that suspend the stone shards. Annie Farrar combines found objects into vertical assemblages and then slants them against the wall. Joan Belmar arrays plastic forms in wall-mounted boxes -- abstract dioramas that are literally if not thematically transparent.