Sherry Markovitz is known for her sculpture: totemic wall-trophy
animals drowning in beads and shells and feathers. Some of those
will be at Greg Kucera Gallery. But since 2006, she’s been making
paintings on silk, and the medium brings out something wild in
her. Marriage, the first of her silk paintings, portrays a
doll-like white woman and a primitively styled Native American man;
Two-Faced Cross-Eyed Baby is pretty much what it sounds
like—and more disturbing. (Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave
S, 624-0770. 10:30 am–5:30 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...