Alice Shaw has a sly sense of humor and it permeates every one of the photo-based objects in her solo show currently on view at Gallery 16. A “spray-paint-o-graph” looks like an early experiment from the dawn of Photography, those barely-discernable fern fronds we had to sit through in Art School, but hers is exactly what it’s called, leaves laid on paper, the paper spray painted, the shadowy outlines of the leaves left behind, instantly recognizable as being from both another time and our own. Her show is the wittiest, most delightful exploration of the many modes of photographic expression in town. And it’s all about death: of photography, of the environment, of the object. A must-see!