In the riotous paintings on view in this show, Armenian-born Gegam Kacherian floats as rapturously through the Western art canon as he does through world cultures. The imagination, dreams and fantasy commingle with a range of painting styles to produce a Vegas-takes-on-art-history effect. The luscious color schemes vary somewhat in the medium- to large-scale acrylic-on-canvas paintings (all 2008 or ’09), but the compositions follow a fairly consistent format: meticulously detailed landscapes with Technicolor skies are overlaid with bravura prismatic flourishes and diverse appropriated imagery. Exquisitely drafted castles, cathedrals and modernist buildings and cities levitate. Exotic patterned animals, flocks of birds, boats, planes, costumed dancers, gyrating athletes and images from mainstream news and fashion media all share the canvas with swirling psychedelia-inspired phantasmagoria and other decorative elements