Last month, women artists invented their own biologies at Punch
Gallery. This month, four men ride the time-space-object continuum at SOIL in a group show about the invention not of
bodies but of environments. The lineup is unexpected, pairing Jonathan
Hudak’s scattered scenes with Eric Elliott’s exaggeratedly condensed
paintings and Matt Browning’s loose installation “drawings” (that
incorporate bricks, metal, quilted fabric, fur, tea strainers, and keyboard key sensors) with Whiting Tennis’s solid, personified
plywood sculptures. (SOIL, 112 Third Ave S, 264-8061. 6–9 pm,
free.)

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...