Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian

Broader even than “pop culture,” the theme of this show seems so all-encompassing as to be almost pointless (or, at least, to invite too much esoteric theory for our tastes). The good news is that the show itself is elegantly sparse and impressively installed, showcasing several works each from three artists, who’ve shown mostly at hip, cutting-edge galleries on the coasts, but also locally at the Soap Factory and Midway Contemporary Art. In the middle of the gallery is Jay Heikes’ grid of acoustic-tile ceiling hanging from—and doing insult to—the gallery’s own lofty white beams. This cheap slab of ordinariness plays nicely off Rodney McMillian’s huge sheet of vinyl flooring, whose pattern is a grid of imitation stone tiles; presumably lifted from a dilapidated home, it is hung as a sort of imitation painting. Meanwhile, Adam Helms’ grid of forty-eight “portraits”—black masks, hoods, and kerchiefs, rendered in ink on mylar—points to his interest in the “ordinary culture” of rogues, renegades, and outlaws. 612-375-7622; www.walkerart.org