In the galleries: Works in progress

In the booklet for "Studio Sacrilege," a reproduction of Amy Hughes Braden's "Placed on a Pedestal" shows that the piece includes a rendering of a Madonna-and-child icon. But in the collage painting on display at the District of Columbia Arts Center, the baby and most of the mother have been painted over. The latter version might be called the definitive one, but completion isn't the point of this three-woman show. Perhaps the local artist will stroll in one day and make more changes to the work...