The Stranger

(ART) Straight-up portraiture this ain't. In the group show Persona at Davidson Contemporary, Steven Miller dumped milk over men's heads and made large-format, black-and-white photographs of the milk-to-man contact. Karen Ganz's portraits are like dark, rejected cartoons bandaged into collages. Samantha Scherer reduces celebrity faces to recognizable pen-and-watercolor lips or eyes materializing in the middle of white paper. (A new, worried-looking eyescape turns out to be none other than Scooter Libby.) And Francesca Sundsten paints on found photos, turning them into carnivalesque curiosities. (Davidson Contemporary, 310 S Washington St, 624-7684. Tues–Sat, 10 am–5:30 pm, free.) by Jen Graves

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