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Local photographer Tara Bogart says her show is in a gallery that's a little off the beaten path, but it's worth making a detour on Gallery Night to check it out.

"It's worth the time to stop by," says Bogart. "Kathryn E. Martin will install a rainforest with 200-plus trees made out of styrofoam cups."

The show, called "Art In Architecture," hangs in a renovated "green" historical house in the Brewer's Hill neighborhood, 1934 N. 2nd St., and features the work of Bogart, Martin, Taffnie Bogart and Bruce Dorow.

"It should be amazing," says Tara Bogart.

Gallery Night and Day is Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April 19. "Art in Architecture" is available for viewing from noon to 10 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday or by appointment. For more information, go to the Web site.

Here's more about the artists:

Tara Bogart's new work, "Twilight," is a series that touches on the awkwardness and innocence of young women on the verge of adulthood. Tara uses her dream like style to create scenes with three young women.

Martin observes banal objects and through close examination, find inspiration and artistic expression. Concentrating on the formal characteristics, Martin makes marks, leaves alterations and changes inherent functions. The process she incorporates uses and re-uses the whole of its parts through dissection, interpretation, repetition, and assemblage.

Dorow will show large-scale sculptural paintings using techniques that involve all of his sensibilities toward presenting his perceptions on contemporary living.

Taffnie Bogart created an original mirror incorporating colors to compliment the tiled bathroom floor of the house's first floor half bath, made with her own handmade porcelain tile. Taffnie Bogart and Dorow will also feature stoneware vases and porcelain along with face plates and clay miniatures.