As portraiture exhibitions go, this one is pretty crackling: Osama bin Laden in airbrush, five-foot-square photographs of blood-soaked extreme fighters, a painstaking oil rendering of Louisa May Alcott, a Marlene Dietrich-inspired video presentation, and a sculptural self-portrait using years’ worth of garbage are just some of the faces greeting viewers here. In all, nine local artists–Ernest Arthur Bryant III, Katinka Galanos, David Hamlow, Suzanne Kosmalski, Anthony Marchetti, Peter B. Becker Nelson, Ben Olson, Xavier Tavera, and Jay Wittenberg–offer up more than thirty unconventional portraits. 50 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul; 651-266-1030; www.mmaa.org
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