Assemblage is the three-dimensional cousin of collage, the process of imbuing innocent objects with new, often unexpected meaning. The potential of modern assemblage has been evident at least since Joseph Cornell began infusing his surreal shadow boxes will all the spatial ennui of a De Chirico side street. Gerald Mead has long been a practitioner of this art of the found object, and is currently showing recent assemblages at Studio Hart through Saturday, October 11 (65 Allen Street, 536-8337 / studiohart.com).

Currently on view at the UB Center for the Arts is the work of fine art photographer and New York Times photojournalist Lyle Ashton Harris.