For being so grim, this three-person show is remarkably
entertaining: Jen Liu’s videos feature Pink Floyd standards sung in
Latin plainchant, Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” performed by a
community brass band, cannibalism, brutalist architecture, and pretty
young men. In David Maljkovic’s videos, young people in a
postcommunist daze linger under burdensome modernist architecture,
loitering around immobilized cars. Matthew Day Jackson has actually
immobilized a Corvette, which sits in the middle of the gallery,
bringing to mind stoners and bombed-out cathedrals. (Henry
Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280. 11 am–5 pm,
$10.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...