Isis Rodriguez, Nancy Mizuno Elliott & Kathy Aoki

Imagine this show as the gallery-crawl equivalent of everything the latest Charlie’s Angels sequel tried and failed to do. That is, girl power projected by three women who know how to be badasses and also know how to have fun doing so. What these three northern California artists share is probably greater than what divides them, and that includes a joyous embrace of pop culture, irreverence and a serious amount of up-with-sisters sass. Rodriguez combines cartoons, graffiti and psychedelia to scramble around concepts of femininity while Mizuno Elliott’s paintings are confessional works in the vein of Lynda Barry, drawing from Latino murals and the abrasive vigor of punk-rock posters. And Aoki’s deceptively cute images of girls driving bright pink cranes and purple dump trucks hides a subversive sense of humor: Look closely, and you see the girls are burying teddy bears in some kind of strangely huggable mass grave. Now, let’s bring in Crispin Glover and some kung fu, and maybe we’ll really be on to something. Flanders Contenporary Art , 400 First Ave. N., (612) 344-1700, www.flanders-art.com


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