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  • Through the Looking Glass

    Local artist Jennifer Davis is exhibiting Through the Looking Glass, a series of whimsical and emotional narrative paintings that study the quirks of humanity, at the SOO Visual Arts Center’s Toomer Gallery beginning June 20. According to Davis, she approaches her work as an intuitive process. "From the confusing battles we fight within ourselves, to the familiar feeling of being lost in a crowd, each story is played out in a dreamland that somehow feels like home."

    The exhibit kicks off Friday, June 20 with an opening reception from 6 – 9 p.m. The SOO Visual Arts Center is located at 2640 Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis.

  • You’re My Favorite Kind of Pretty

    Recent conversations with Jon Ferguson,
    that rising star of the local theater scene, revealed a topical theme:
    The man is headlong in love. Since he and his partner, performer Megan Odell of Live Action Set,
    recently welcomed a baby boy into the world, Ferguson—formerly an
    itinerant, couch-surfing bachelor—finds himself an unlikely inhabitant
    of a state of domestic bliss. His latest show, fittingly, explores the
    gradations of romantic relationships: from love at first sight to (with
    any luck) a committed coupling. A cast of fine, crush-worthy
    collaborators lent their own romantic histories to the project,
    including Jennifer Davis,
    whose vivid paintings Ferguson finds distinctly feminine and beautiful,
    and Sara Richardson, a stellar (and dismayingly under-used) performer
    who somehow manages to be both physically lovely and goofy as all
    get-out.

    Southern Theater, 612-340-1725.