Pittsburgh artist Michelle Fried has been locked inside Crawl Space
for a week making art, and tonight she opens the doors. Her video,
sculpture, and sound work reinvents her own biography from ages 8 to
18
, using such cultural landmarks as DJ Tanner, Kurt Cobain,
Marshall Applewhite, and Igrid Bayer (Escambia High School’s
Homecoming Queen
). It’s the first-ever “Studio Intensive Residency
Exhibition” at the gallery. (Crawl Space Gallery, 504 E Denny Way
#1, 201-2441. 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...