The Visual Arts Gallery is hosting a tribute to maker of fine art presses Ray Trayle, featuring work by students and faculty members made using his presses.

Some pieces include art by Sheryl Funkhouser, Frank Boyden, Carol Ferris and Georgeanne Watters.

There is lots of stark black and white in the show, but also surprising spots of color, like Watters’ self-portraits.

Funkhouser’s piece “Shell with Leaves” is vaguely reminiscent of Richard Dadd’s painting “The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke,” another in which much is going on. In both, the viewer sees something new every time they look at it, and the tiny people depicted seem to be up to something.

Boyden’s “Uncle Skulky” character is unforgettable. He is sometimes comical, sometimes sinister, but always human. Four pieces depicting this multi-faceted skeleton are being shown, and in each the viewers learn a little more about Uncle Skulky and perhaps about themselves as well.

Ferris’ piece “View” is the most surreal work in the show. The “view” might be the scene from a window that has steamed up, and fingers have smeared the condensation around so some of the outside is discernable, but much has been distorted. It is a scene of countryside or a city, a farmhouse or an alley; maybe that is what makes it such a familiar “view.”