At Palubinskas’ debut show in the Cities last year, we heard one wag comment, “If I went off my medicine for a few days, I could paint that.” But just because you hallucinate, it doesn’t make you a painter. Palubinskas is a painter. Trained as an art conservator in her native Lithuania, her technique is spectacular in its skill and detail. Her obsession with unblinking young girls married with Bosch-like images of skeletal death and parading rats is rendered all the more eerie by her fully developed technique. The macabre world she creates is a welcome change to all who’ve been too long sedated by predictable art. 3413 44th St. W., Minneapolis; 612-339-1094; www.theissgallery.com
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