Last Night: A First Thursday Loop Around the Tashiro Kaplan Building

A self portrait by Ariana Page Russell at Gallery4Culture
Photographs by Adriana Grant

Ariana Page Russell's Dressing
Gallery4Culture

The photographer is her own model, and with classic good looks, she plays the part well. And then there is her highly reactive porcelain skin.

Seen here, scratched into red welts, which she photographed, reproduced, and made into wallpaper. It's beautiful and gruesome, both. (Detail below.) Through November 28. (See this week's Wire write-up here.)

Justin Colt Beckman's Honky Tonk
Punch Gallery
A film of the artist doing a surprisingly good country act projected on stage, while onlookers enjoyed PBR, cracked peanuts, and inhaled the smell of a sawdust covered floor. I wanted the artist up there, live, but he told me that would change the meaning of the piece. Through November 22.

Nick Hall's Alaska's Red Gold
Tashiro Kaplan Center's Angle Gallery
Surprisingly compelling photographs of Wild Alaskan Sockeye fisherman, taken on a trip to Bristol Bay, and cast onto sublimated aluminum. On the artist's blog, more info about the proposed open pit mine in the area. Through November 30.

Matt Sellars' The Open Quarter
Platform Gallery
Sellar's beautiful and troubled look at world industry and consumption, via carefully crafted wooden sculptures. Through November 29.

Bin Labs Presents: Second Growth
Sean Regan, Rachel Hibbard and Cara Tomlinson
SOIL
Another mediation on consumption, via an installation about the quantity of matter that passes through thrift stores. And look in the backspace for a projection narrated by a sort of love letter, by Uri Aran and Josh Tonsfeldt. Through November 29.