As the audio begins to play, Josselyn Trombly’s soft yet animated voice starts floating through what seems like a big open space, as she describes a gouache painting, “Plush Blush”, by Pakistani-American visual artist Shahzia Sikander. “The absurdism of a woman riding a chicken first attracted me to this piece,” says Trombly, a first-year Northeastern University student on the Oakland campus and a gallery assistant at the Mills College Art Museum.