Martina Sciolino lives in Hattiesburg but was born in Buffalo, New York, where the modern collection at the Albright Knox Museum formed her earliest sense of art’s possibilities. Her paintings, usually acrylic on canvas, are inspired by layering in the natural world. Unlike landscape painting, her abstractions dissolve foreground into background and don’t depend on real vistas. Rather, each painting evolves from improvisations in color, form, and marking, one part calling forth the next. The work represents the mysteries of forms that emerge and recede from space and into perception.