PHIL BORGES

The prolific photographer's newest work, from the (pre-9/11) Pakistan/Afghanistan border. Opening lecture and slide show at Kane Hall, room 210, Wed Jan 16, 7 pm. Odegaard Undergraduate Library, University of Washington campus, 685-3130. Through Jan 31.

RON EHRLICH

New abstract work. Ballard/Fetherston Gallery, 818 E Pike St, 322-9440. Through Feb 27.

* OVERDRAWN

See Stranger Suggests. For one weekend only, you can get something for nothing, or less than nothing. Bring proof of your poverty--a check returned and marked "NSF," an ATM receipt showing a negative balance--and exchange it for some art! No kidding! Opening reception Fri Jan 11, 7 pm. Vital 5 Productions, 2200 Westlake Ave, 254-0475. Open 12-5 pm Sat Jan 12 and Sun Jan 13.

TIM RIPLEY

Bright, idiosyncratic photographs and lightboxes from Ripley's travels in Brazil and other countries. Opening reception Sat Jan 12, 7 pm. Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave NW, 784-4880. Through Feb 8.

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

14.15.ART

For the past eight years, 14.15.art--a group of 15 local printmakers and painters--has gathered each month for a kind of informal critique. This is their first show as a group. Phinney Center Gallery, Phinney Neighborhood Center, 6532 Phinney Ave N, 783-2244. Through Jan 28.

ERIK ANDREWS

New paintings: big abstractions with very specific text. Victrola Coffee, 411 15th Ave E, 325-6520. Through Jan 31.

DEBRA BAXTER

Baxter has an interesting way with a canvas: she likes to attack it, disembowel it, and put it back together. Now, however, she's interested in clouds, which makes sense in a roundabout kind of way--solid, but not; heavy, but fragmented--if you think about it enough. Zeitgeist, 171 S Jackson St, 583-0497. Through Jan 31.

BEACON HILL PRINTMAKERS

Another longtime group of printmakers... must be something in the water. Opening reception next week. ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave SW, 938-0963. Through Feb 2.

RICHARD BEERHORST

Portraits and still lifes that are--wait for it--optimistic. Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Ave, 264-1586. Through Feb 9.

GEORGE J. BRANDT

Mixed media, personal/spiritual journeys, disemboweled doll. Mary Vitold Gallery, 110 S Washington St, 624-9336. Through Feb 2.

* THE BUNNY CHRONICLES

Hooray! It's back! Don't miss Tomiko Jones' adventures of the lonely, angry, wistful bunny-girl. Glazer's Camera Rental & Lighting, 517 Dexter Ave N, 233-0211. Through Jan 12.

BARBARA DePIRRO

Environments explored through photography and painting. Still Life in Fremont Coffeehouse, 709 E 35th St, 547-9850. Through Jan 22.

MARK DITZLER, BILL AND DONITA DAVIES, DEBORAH BIGELOW-JOHNSON

Glass and more glass. Columbia City Gallery, 4916 Rainier Ave S, 760-9843. Through Jan 15.

DONALD FELS

Audio memoirs of growing up with plywood, plus a big ol' installation. Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919. Through Feb 28.

NORAH FLATLEY

A sculptural narrative of the Smith Tower--clever, since in exhibiting in the Smith Tower, the work becomes part of the narrative in an endless reflexive loop. King County Gallery, 506 Second Ave, room 200, 296-7580. Through Jan 25.

SIMONA FOGGITT

New mixed-media works with lots of newspaper. Nico Gallery, 619 Western Ave, 2nd floor, 264-1710. Through Feb 2.

GALLERY ARTISTS GROUP EXHIBIT

With work by Isabel Kahn, Brandon Zebold, Dean Eliasen, Mary Henry, Ben Harby, Jim Hansen, and the Lisas (Zerkowitz and Buchanan). Bryan Ohno Gallery, 155 S Main St, 667-9572. Through Feb 2.

ANNIE GRGICH

Twelve years of Grgich's work--intensely layered, intensely personal--which has its roots in the punk scenes and zines of Portland and San Francisco. Garde Rail Gallery, 4860 Rainier Ave S, 721-0107. Through Jan 26.

PAVLINA HONCOVA

Photographs of a monastery's destroyed rooms; architecture as built, and as ravaged. FotoCircle Gallery, 562 First Ave S, Suite 300, 624-2645. Through Feb 2.

DEBORAH HORRELL

An exploration of vessels as metaphors. Elliott Brown Gallery, 215 Westlake Ave N, 340-8000. Through Jan 26.

IT'S JUST LIKE THE MOVIES

Except when it isn't. Reactions to 9/11. Li'l Red Shack Gallery, 1020 First Ave S, 621-7807. Through Feb 3.

DIANN KNEZOVICH

New spaces created by altering photographs of architectural and landscape elements. Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355. Through Jan 13.

* NIKKI McCLURE AND BEATRICE CORON

If you've never seen McClure's intricate cut-paper works, I implore you, once again, to go. Here, she's also showing two books that she collaborated on with Coron, mailing them back and forth between coasts, building on each other's work. Wessel and Leiberman Booksellers, 208 First Ave S, 682-3545. Through Jan 31.

MEMBERS' EXHIBITION

Juried by Marsha Burns. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Jan 30.

THE MEXICANA SHOW

The gallery's usual prankster-artists (Jim Blanchard, David Tupper, Cook & Walsh) take on Mexi-kitsch (wrestlers! little dogs!). Roq la Rue, 2224 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through Jan 30.

LAMONT MUDD

Pop culture and other fleeting sensations, captured in painting. dirtworks gallery, 214 First Ave S, lower level, 625-4101. Through Jan 31.

MIKE NIPPER

The same paintings he showed at the Crocodile last September--but Nipper works here, and if I don't mention him, I won't get my mail. Also, poor guy's last two shows have been upstaged by WTO riots and terrorism, so cut him a break. Re-Bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873. Through Jan 31.

NORTHWEST PRINTMAKERS: 1900-1060

Even more prints, this time from well-known and less well-known artists, such as Roi Partridge, Glen Alps (who created the hate-it-or-love-it sculpture formerly on the site of the future Civic Center), and Pauline Johnson. Martin-Zambito Fine Art, 721 E Pike St, 726-9509. Through Feb 6.

FRANK OKADA, KATHRYN VAN DYKE

An exhibition of the works remaining in Okada's estate when he died last year. His last works combine the strictness of geometric abstraction with a detailed brushwork and attention to paint-handling that brings them to life. Van Dyke's amazing mirror installation, Knowing You, Knowing Me, is a postmodern hall of mirrors: hundreds of tiny little mirrors, regularly spaced apart on invisible monofilament line to create a four-walled room. From such a simple premise comes such a refraction of meaning and visual experience that one feels truly through the looking glass. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through Feb 2.

CHRISTOPHER PALMS

Photographs from over 15 years of shooting. KALO Gallery, 214 First Ave S, #B8, 781-7786. Through Jan 27.

LAURA JANE PETELKO

Two photographic documentaries. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Jan 31.

CRAIG POZZI

Reflections on the bounty, excess, and capitalistic scourge of the American mall. Little Theatre Gallery, 608 19th Ave E, 675-2055. Through Jan 26.

MELANIE REED, D.A. JONES

Surrealism times two. JEM Studios, 1205 S Vale St (Georgetown), 767-3166. Through Jan 28.

RESIDENT ARTIST HOLIDAY EXHIBIT

With featured work by Alan Pogue and Phil Borges. Benham Photography, 1216 First Ave, 622-2480. Through Jan 12.

SEATTLE COLLECTS 2001

The Seattle Arts Commission's Seattle Collects program acquires work for the city's portable works collection. This year's honorees are Jennifer Dixon, Dai Giang, Tom Hall, Mary Iverson, Joel Lee, Victoria Haven, Blake Haygood, and Glenn Rudolph. The Gallery, Key Tower Building, Cherry St at Fifth Ave, 3rd floor, 684-7312. Through Jan 11.

STEPPING FROM THE SHADOWS

IMC's latest art venture brings graffiti artists from around the country inside--with works on canvas and installation projects by PARS (of the sad children in the scary and carnivorous urban landscapes), Cause-B (of the revolutionary heroes and sexy kittens), and Amir H. Fallah (a writer whose graffiti runs backward, like Farsi), among others. Independent Media Center Gallery, 1415 Third Ave, 262-0721. Through Jan 31.

INEZ STORER

New paintings in Fantasies/Lies. Grover/Thurston Gallery, 309 Occidental Ave S, 223-0816. Through Feb 14.

* TRANSMOGRIFIED

Other curators have meditated on the intersection of science and art, the Benjaminesque implications of mechanical reproduction, and the through-the-looking-glass world of things that were formerly too small (or too hidden) to see. Here is Jim Harris' take, with the work of four exceptional Seattle artists (Claire Cowie, Patrick Holderfield, Susan Robb, and Ephraim Russell) and Stephanie Syjuco from San Francisco. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Jan 19.

* PATTI WARASHINA

This is Warashina's first solo show in Seattle in a decade; here, she focuses on the human body as seen in ancient history with sculptures that create a point on a visual timeline. Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through Jan 26.

RICH WERNER

Comics-influenced art--including some watercolor--on cold-press illustration board. Cut Kulture Gallery, 2018 First Ave, 374-8753. Through Feb 1.

EVENTS

* SPACEBOAT TV

See Stranger Suggests. A party inside an installation, with more forward-thinking visuals, music, and ambient audio than you can shake a stick at. Fri Jan 11, at EMP's Sky Church, 325 Fifth Ave, 770-2702, 8-11 pm, $10/$12.

SEATTLE PRINT FAIR

Did I tell you January was print month, or what? Thousands upon thousands of woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs available here. Sat Jan 12, 10 am-6 pm and Sun Jan 13, 11 am-5 pm at Seattle Center's Snoqualmie Room, 684-8582.