Five stars
G.C. Lucas Gallery

The impressionist works of American artist Gordon Fowler intimately recreate the scenes he witnessed throughout his travels in France and Mexico. His thick impasto style and use of light perfectly capture the delicate, cultivated beauty of the French people and countryside, as well as the rugged, natural beauty found in Mexico and its people. It is said that Fowler’s amiable disposition leads him to make friends wherever he visits, and the characteristic ease of manner found in his human subjects attest to this. The artist’s work does not romanticize everyday events, but offers a candid, dreamlike glimpse into alternate realities that exist just beyond the horizon. Through July 26; 317-255-4000, www.gclucasgallery.com.