Open on First Friday – Surreal Insectica and the Goo Goo Zoo

Come out for the First Friday Art Walk! Transmission Gallery is open until 8 pm with concurrent exhibitions on view. Also in the building, GearBox Gallery is just downstairs. Fun and free, there’s lots to see in both galleries on First Friday with free street parking on West Grand Ave and in the nearby neighborhood south of West Grand.

Inspiring curiosity, dread and disgust, insects are arguably the true inheritors of the earth, comprising more than half of known animal species. Spanning wildly diverse habitats and a complex array of life cycles, they are both directly important to our existence and a threat to it. Eclectic sculptural works by Karl X. Hauser, Ken Kalman, Alison J. McLennan, Ruth Santee and Dave Yoas celebrate that duality in metal, plastic and wood. While some pieces replicate intricate details of common insects, others take a whimsical turn, morphing into hybrid creatures inspired by both the menacing and the absurd, where danger and humor coexist in intriguing display.

While you’re in the gallery, check out concurrent exhibition, Judson King Smith’s “The House of Miraculous Recovery.”