Last Chance

Catch it or Regret It

by Holly Otterbein

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Vox V

It's fun to picture 52 national and international artists, curators Ryan Trecartin and Larry Mangel, and assorted interns and friends schlepping 100 pieces of work up Vox Populi's rickety stairs. OK, so maybe that's a tad mean. But really, how did they get Sarah Knouse's Crawl, a sculpture of a woman on all fours made completely of red string and resin, there without it unraveling?

Other pieces in this fifth annual exhibit are better for transport, but no less intriguing: Jaime Treadwell's oil paintings Guns "n" Religion and Fairy Tale reveal nightmarish worlds in which unrelated subjects intermingle. How unrelated? Well, neon-colored RVs, Roman pillars, a little girl shooting a hot pink gun, religious statues, porn stars, Olympic gymnasts and camouflage outfits are pretty different. Speaking of porn stars, Giacomo Fortunato's adults-only photograph Sex on the Mind captures a man watching porn on two separate laptops, while he's wrapped like a present — head to toe — in pornographic magazines. So that's technically sex on the mind, and elbow, and belly button ... Ends Aug. 2, Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St., third floor, 215-238-1236, voxpopuligallery.org.

Damn the Valley

If American soldiers' documentation of their lives through grainy, shaky YouTube videos is interesting, then Sgt. Tom Hunter's slick digital photographs of his time in Afghanistan are enthralling. Look out for the photos depicting local, aged children, like Shoe Salesman (pictured). Ends Aug. 7, Cerulean Arts, 1355 Ridge Ave., 267-514-8647, ceruleanarts.com.

One Mile

(holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)