Midway Contemporary Art, through August 20 Hot stuff from both coasts. While lots of artists do cheeky or ironic or deadpan-cool takes on fashion models and magazine culture, New York painter Katherine Bernhardt has been getting acclaim for her caustic, expressionistic approach to these topics, which has a whiff of early eighties punk about it (some works are done on cardboard). Anna Sew Hoy’s sculptures are both repellent and fascinating, incorporating castoffs from the streets of L.A.: perfume bottles, stickers, cheap jewelry, eighties-era batwing novelty sweaters. One sculpture’s base is made from a trio of Styrofoam busts of Darth Vader. And the abstract paintings from Sew HoyÕs fellow Angeleno Rebecca Morris could be called the most traditional work here, except that her conflicts play out among passages of garish metallic paint, spray paint, and oils. In all, there’s ample trash and flash on display, in a show that’s just right for the dog days. 3338 University Ave. S.E., Minneapolis; 651-917-1851; www.midwayart.org
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