Comedy and melancholy down on the farm - Videos, paintings look under surface

By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent

"...The degree of nuanced detail in Nuno De Campos's paintings and drawings of winter in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, also at LaMontagne Gallery, almost makes you feel the hush and chill of the park right after snowfall. "Walking her Dog (monument)" captures the unsullied snow in pale blues and purples, with a gray monument like a shrouded beacon in the distance, framed by the crisp scratch of bare branches against the sky."