Trish Grantham and Amy Ruppel show their individualistic take on Russian dolls. At Grass Hut www.grasshutcorp.com 811 E Burnside
Destroy Store has prolific local artist Chris Haberman. www.destroystore.com 1712 E Burnside
Next door, Life+Limb has a show by Erik Railton, Old Song. Life+Limb specializes in inside zen gardening, including cacti that even I may not be able to kill. www.lifeandlimb.net 1716 E Burnside
Gallery Homeland has an international artist residency program. This month Swiss resident artist Christoph Hueppi shows Swarm Intelligence. The artist statement for the show relates swarms of bugs in India with the distributed algorithms in telecommunication networks that allow electronic outsourcing between the US and India. Me, I'm just thinking about the seasonal return of kitchen ants. www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th
Portland is an encaustic town, owing more to local artists who became interested and taught others, than to winter rains driving artists into medieval studios of art alchemy, mixing pigment and wax over flame. If you are interested in the topic, the Marki gallery is hosting a traveling group show of encaustic work. Talk there Saturday at 3PM by the curator. www.brianmarki.com 2236 NE Broadway
Newspace has Hawaiian landscape photographs on manipulated Polaroids by Ivan Wentland. www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th
