Through Nov 26. They're bright, but not cheerful. 2519 Fifth Ave, 448-2825. Through Nov 9. In a version of the Skin So Thick series that West showed earlier this year at Tacoma's Commencement Gallery, five video screens show a colony of coils pushing their way through a layer of latex.
West plays with ideas of dimensionality in which the oddest situations become landscapes.
The 911 storefront can't possibly be as satisfying as one of her walk-through installations, but even held at arm's length her work's visual puzzles are worth a second and third look. Thurs Oct 19, 7-9 pm. Through Dec 17. The result is a meditation on decay and growth, and she has cleverly let some of her negatives decay as well in a clever continuum between medium and subject. Through Oct 28.