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Aiyah Sibay

There’s a lot to admire in the work of four artists exhibiting at Gallery Route One this month. In “To Dance Another Animal,” Isis Hockenos’s figures are active and funny: prancing, bowing, embracing. They are like figures glimpsed in movie stills, in high drama chiascuro. She says she was influenced by Max Beckman, the 1930s Expressionist, and her work may remind some of the Bay Area Figurative painting of the 1950s. But the painting is…