The most riveting work in the Metal Museum's Artist-in-Residence Show, being hosted by the Jack Robinson Gallery, is Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh's aluminum casting of baby doll faces, Escaping the Net. The cherubic cheeks, frozen smiles, and empty eye sockets of the dolls' faces are cast in aluminum and squeezed through a frayed metal mesh to create a viscerally compelling image that suggests being chewed up and spit out.

The work's title, however, invites a more positive reading — what Tomlinson Saltmarsh describes as "marshalling all of our mental/emotional/physical faculties to push through life's biggest challenges."

This endlessly evocative, unsparing, simultaneously demonic/cherubic image also brings to mind the Tibetan practice of "Bardo" and going beyond desire and delusion, going beyond the terrifying projections of our own minds, and getting off the karmic wheel of cause and effect altogether.

At Jack Robinson Gallery through September 29th