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Summer Group Exhibit It requires a delicate hand to peel an orange's spongy casing in an uncorrupted spiral. Ceramic artist Rachel Euting has that delicacy of dexterity, at least with ceramics, her medium of choice. Her piece "Nested Vessels" resembles a series of perfectly peeled concentric fruit rinds nestled into one another like a Matryoshka doll. In Euting's "Bud Vases," pastel-green pods, squashlike and bottom-heavy, are topped with tiny apertures. They look like molten olives or, disconcertingly, like a litter of eyeless maggots, little mouths yearning for sustenance. Andrew Gilliat's jars look like miniature towers of stacked tires topped with nipplelike spires. His "Juice Cups" is a line of small glasses with distended bases and fluted shafts. Ginny Sims' pieces are the most ecstatic of the bunch, with inky newsprint decals of type and images countered by gold accents. Her white finishes are intentionally messy — drippings are visible near the bottom of each teacup, like frosting. Through Sept. 2 at Red Star Studios, 821 W. 17th St., 816-474-7316. (Ashley Brown)
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