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September 21-27, 2006

Arts Agenda : Last Chance

Last Chance

Catch It or Regret It

Dennis Carpenter: Terra Firma, Terra Incognito
Runs through Sept. 22, Sol Mednick Gallery at University of the Arts, 211 S. Broad St., 15th floor, 215-717-6300, www.uarts.edu/go

Carpenter's photos layer pictures he took while traveling the U.S. and Europe with maps, ID cards and other tourist detritus. The collages don't ask how we can get beyond the exotic cliches (or iconic images, if you prefer) of the places we visit so much as revel in them.

Art in the 'Toon Age
Runs through Sept. 23, Stedman Gallery at Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Third St. between Cooper St. and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, 856-225-6350, www.ruarts.org

This exhibit of pop-influenced illustrations from the last 50 years is a glorious excuse to place a diverse array of loosely connected work in one room: Peter Sault's Day-Glo nightmare; a Red Grooms poster from the Guggenheim; Paul Henry Ramirez's weird sexual geometries; Yoshitomo Nara's mischievous imps (pictured); John Wesley's insolvably ambiguous "boyfriends" screenprint; and Mexican artist Enrique Chagoya's El Regresso del Caribal Macrobiótica, a play on South American codices that combines Mexican religious iconography, conquistador engravings and images from American comic books.

Myung Jin Choi: Incipience
Runs through Sept. 24, The Clay Studio, 139 N. Second St., 215-925-3453, www.theclaystudio.org

Korean transplant Myung Jin Choi's clay sculptures play with repeated forms and color—one wall-mounted sculpture is like a city block seen from above, the thrusting forms softened and left somewhere between manmade and organic. In another sculpture, ascending and descending lines of suspended pink diamonds recall chimes and musical harmonies.

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