Orange County

Jeanne O’Connor’s black-and-white photographs dream in color. They’re printed on transparent sheets of Kodalith that reveal passages of paint, colored pencil, felt-tipped pen and collage applied to a sheet of drawing paper slid underneath.

In “Catherine’s Kitchen,” the artist offers three reworkings of a domestic interior awash in reflections and shadows to show the changing colors and patterns of light at different times of day. “Paper Lanterns” is a Taos image of droopy paper bags holding candles that rest on the plump contours of an adobe stairway. Gentle drifts of pink and blue give the scene a dreamy allure. Tinted cars parked along an industrial street with improbably pastel-hued buildings clothes a workaday scene with an aura of otherworldliness.

These large, 40-by-40-inch prints by the Bay Area photographer give dream-space room to breathe. The newest one was shot in Maine, with almost tactile granular banks of snow in heightened white against a yellow-shadowed cutout fence and--beyond the envelope of space built into the layered composition--a dark fringe of branches against a yellow-blue sky. (Susan Spiritus Gallery, 3333 Bear St., Suite 330, Costa Mesa, to June 25.)