[Kathryn Myers], who is better known in Connecticut for her large-scale paintings heavily influenced by the likes of Caravaggio, offers her works on a much more intimate scale this time. Her painting appears on the torn pages of a beautiful book. Sometimes the words from the text, written in Sanskrit, seem to leak through and offer another layer of detail. CONNECTICUT CONTEMPORARY runs Thursday through Aug. 12 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St., Hartford. Hours are: Wednesdays through Fridays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; First Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $10, $8 for seniors, $5 for students, $5 on First Thursdays from 5 to 8 p.m., free for members and children younger than 12 with adults. Information: 860-278-2670 or www.wadsworthatheneum.org. PHOTO 1: COLOR, KATHRYN MYERS PHOTO 2-4: COLOR, PHOTOS COURTESY OF WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART; PHOTO 1: "OBSCURE & COMMON DUTIES VARANASI" depicts bathing in the waters of the Ganges River. PHOTO 2-4: AMONG THE "CONNECTICUT CONTEMPORARY" artworks are, at left, a still from Joseph Smolinski's "Tree Turbine," 2007 (high Definition digital...

A DIFFERENT STATE OF MIND ; CONNECTICUT ARTISTS STRETCH BEYOND CONVENTIONAL PERCEPTIONS: STATEWIDE Edition