“Water becomes an inescapable force dissolving the boundaries between body, landscape, memory and the present in an incessant flood.” Elizabeth Glaessner’s fourth exhibition at P·P·O·W transforms the gallery into a saturated dreamscape. Channeling childhood memories of bayous, streams, and rivers into her large-scale paintings, the East Texas-born artist blurs figuration with poured pigments and oil paint. In Dissociating on a Rock (2025), an aqueous woman painted a deep-space blue seems to divide in two; also present are a grinning skull (a touch of memento mori) and an anole lizard (another Houston native). Glaessner’s misty technique embodies an environmental message; her work dissolves the false boundary between humans and the natural world. As the rising waters of climate change threaten communities like East Texas, Glaessner’s paintings serve as an allegory of warning. —Frankie Budworth