The Stranger

Portland artists Stephanie Robison and Paula Rebsom lay traps. Robison's three sculptures—one, Mattressland, was at the CoCA annual this year—are soft and messy but based in the hard mechanics of, say, Jessica Stockholder. They're not too cute, either. The sweetness of the hand-stitched fabric trees spilling their stuffing in their cage of loose scaffolding atop a cove makes the title, Cave-In, a reference to catastrophe and to hippie utopia. Rebsom's two nighttime photographs, of wood-cutout coyotes in a backyard and badlands in a front yard, are as amusing as eerie, even though both responses shouldn't be possible at the same time. (Form/Space Atelier, 1907 Second Ave, 448-2302. Noon—5 pm, free.) by Jen Graves

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