“Lime green” is one of five visual contexts that Paul Heyer uses to explore the influences of varying light in the “Beach,” a painting series that makes up part of his new show. “Beach (lime green)” ...

Glass-bodied lamps filled with bleached scallop shells and sand dollars; a pink-lipped conch shell; framed shell lithographs; tiny coquinas in the car ashtray: My mother, an avid collector, filled our ...