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Jordan Eagles, Elizabeth Riggle, and Lorena Salcedo-Watson take up the issue of connective tissue. You know, all that “stuff” that keeps this thing we call a body together. Connective tissue is made up of cells, fibers, and gel-like substances; and is more specifically referred to as blood, bones, and cartilage. Not many artists dig below the skin’s surface to source (or mine?) their subject matter. But these three artists do and they revel in it.

Upon first impression, the works presented in All Made Up might be viewed as interior-abstract body environments or samples from a lab experiment …