David Lefkowitz: Tangle

David Lefkowitz is painting again. He hadn’t really stopped, but he’s dedicated the last few years mostly to his sculpture and drawings—graphite renderings of monumental cardboard boxes and witty constructions of tree stumps from the same brown materials. This show brings back an earlier style: These “Tangles” are oil-painted hybrids of electric-cord kudzu and tropical lianas, limned in an overheated nineteenth-century botanical style. The theme here is the hybrid: How is humanness changing the visible world? What kind of animals are we? How does transformation start, and where does it go? For Lefkowitz these may be serious questions, but the art with which he addresses them carry some wit along for the journey. 530 Third St. N., Minneapolis; 612-338-3656; www.thomasbarry.com