Have you ever seen cops with paintball guns depicted in silhouette on a porcelain plate? And in the style of 18th-century blue-and-white transferware? That’s something artist Paul Scott has done. He’s also made a blue-and-white serving platter that shows people looking sadly between the tall steel bollards of the U.S.–Mexico border wall. Scott uses a historically strict medium as his site for an unpredictable range of subjects, some of them political. He’s said that he means to “rebalance the narrative with something more contemporary and inclusive.” This exhibition in Cincinnati presents over 50 of the artist’s ceramics—blue and white, with a twist. —Jimmy Lux Fox