Caroline Avery's films vary from hand-painted images and portraits of friends and places, to re-photographed images from the visual media. Short, intense works-none runs ten minutes, some only seconds-they share an appreciation of the film surface and a desire to create or record a moment. Frame by frame, Avery scratches, paints, cuts and pastes images she has photographed or "found," but the final sense is less one of destruction than of construction. While some images virtually disappear beneath these created textures, new ones are found in the play of light and color. Avery looks at the often overlooked, the everyday, the familiar: neighbors, snowy landscapes, laundry hanging, pictures in a magazine, "how-to" films and TV footage. Her concern seems to be both that of an observer and a commentator; her choices and her "do-it-yourself" work process can be seen as a comment on the scale and scope of institutional image-making while suggesting the pleasure of a personal vision. Kathy Geritz