Michael Weinstein

In a photographic tour de force, Colleen Plumb has shot images of every conceivable way that animals enter the human environment, from two bounding deer invading an exurban back yard to a row of heads of those fauna mounted on a wall. As her project evolved, Plumb moved on to the graphic representations of animals on clothing and in paintings, and finally to dead creatures like a desiccated little bird lying forlornly on a ledge. Far more critical of the most dangerous animal—ourselves—than celebratory of all creatures great and small, Plumb shows us such sights as a hapless goose caged up at a county fair and a roast pig being carved up by a gaggle of salivating middle-aged suburbanites at an outdoor barbecue. If Plumb's low-key, yet telling images do not start you thinking about animal rights, nothing will.

Colleen Plumb shows at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 3430 North Cannon, (773)755-5100, through November 4. (2007-08-28)

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