While Carol Aronson-Shore continues to look for new light in historical sites, Nancy Davison sees the disconcerting future that change can bring.

Both are deservingly accomplished artists, widely exhibited and collected, but their new show reveals more differences than similarities. They are featured together at the Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine, in an exhibit up through July 28.

Aronson-Shore, who won the award for Best 2D Artist in this year’s Spotlight Awards, is a professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. The Barn Gallery’s selection features her structural landscapes, including houses from Strawbery Banke Museum and Portsmouth’s colorful South End, as well as views from Monhegan Lighthouse. The cropped, clean lines of the buildings are awash in golden sunlight and dappled with the shadows of trees.

Aronson-Shore is also a master of the figure, and those works are generally provocative and complex in interpretation. By contrast, her street scenes seem straightforward, but even these carry connotations of insight and vision through symbolism of light, always changing everything.   

Her work can also be found at the Banks Gallery in Portsmouth, the city where she lives and paints.

Davison, the current president of the Ogunquit Arts Collaborative, is primarily a printmaker. After years of focusing on architectural landscapes, she has shifted her attention from buildings to cars.

Her graphic prints, in black or blue with bold red, stand out like protest signs in the same room as the lovely landscapes.

Davison explores transportation as a common experience of our daily lives, but also the political and environmental consequences of large-scale oil use. Rows of cars and trucks suggest climate change and pages of flags represent the death toll of the Iraq War.

Though we’ve heard it before, oil dependency is a concern that continues, and Davison’s concept still resonates. This shift from scenery to political statement is clearly a risk for the artist, but a respectable one, as the new work seems more appropriate for a museum than a boutique.

On Thursday, July 12, Aronson-Shore and Davison will talk about their different sources of inspiration and choices of medium at 7:30 p.m.

Their shared exhibit is one of four shows recently opened at the Barn Gallery. The gallery broke attendance records at the reception on June 30, with more than 300 people stopping by.

Another current exhibit is “Regional Artists: An Open, Juried Show,” a large, group show of remarkable quality, in which diversity of style and subject is an attribute and not a distraction.

Juror Nate Risteen, of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, selected work for this show from 168 entries. His criteria included wholeness of composition, originality, clarity of content, experimentation, honesty, and personal preference.

The show represents 26 Ogunquit Art Association members and 46 other regional artists. These include some familiar names around the Seacoast, such as Don Gorvett, Dewitt Hardy, Shiao-Ping Wang, Theresann D’Angelo and Jim Kelly, among others.

On Thursday, July 19, a panel of artists with work in the show will lead a discussion starting at 7:30 p.m.

In another room, “OAA Expressions” features a wide variety of art by members only. In addition to the three-dimensional work scattered throughout the gallery, New England sculptors display in the unique, outdoor Sculpture Court. An ever-changing array of small works of art is available in the Collector’s Gallery.

The exhibits thrive in the gallery’s spacious setting, with natural light and seating ideal for summer art viewing.

The Barn Gallery is at the corner of Shore Road and Bourne Lane in Ogunquit, Maine. For more information, call 207-646-8400 or go to www.barngallery.org.