Ongoing: Through the Looking Glass at Gallery B

The title of this 10-photographer exhibit name-checks Lewis Carroll’s novel, but with a few exceptions—notably some unnerving images by Leslie Kiefer of mannequins, masks, and a face submerged in water, and Jim Coates’ photographs of interiors of a slowly decaying house—the works on display aren’t particularly eccentric or off-putting. About half the images are in black and white: Van Pulley’s photographs of people partially interrupting shafts of light; Susan Sanders’ depictions of visitors to art museums (an underrated genre); Leslie Landerkin’s impressive photograph of a family sitting around a table, brightly lit amid expansive darkness; and Barry Dunn’s image of water rivulets in a fountain, rushing artfully down ribbony sluices. The other half of the exhibit’s images are in color, and they’re at least as impressive. This section includes works by Jo Levine, who re-ups several of the impressive works from her Studio Gallery show earlier this summer, and Tana Ebbole, who offers meditations on swampy grasses bathed in yellow light. But the exhibit’s two standouts are Barbara Southworth and Kevin Duncan. Southworth offers quiet landscapes, often in distinctly horizontal formats; one features lush moss amid a forest of spindly trees, while another pairs a spread of cinnabar-red flora emerging, improbably, from granite outcroppings. Duncan, meanwhile, is drawn to loose branches breaking through the surface of water or ice; the blue hue of the ice in “Last Breath 1” is particularly evocative. Through the Looking Glass runs through Aug. 3 at Gallery B, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Thursday through Saturday; noon to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. bethesda.org/gallery-b. Free. —Louis Jacobson