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Nature and societal nurture collide in “Hugh Hayden: Home Work,” a sprawling exhibit on view now at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.

Drawings of mangled bodies, hanging upside down and at times shown in chopped parts, create a towering wall around the “Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers” installation at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham.

Lyle Ashton Harris returns to New England for his first solo show in over two decades with an exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. “Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love” examines his 35-year career through the lens of a dynamic new series of work.

“Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded,” at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University through July 8, pairs intimate portraits of the artist’s friends and family with still lives of funerary bouquets. Both subjects require emotional vulnerability and endurance to render and to experience. Though the show’s title refers to a tender scalp, the exhibition explores internal pain.