Jamie Isenstein, “Para Drama”

The work of this Portland, OR, native is noteworthy for its surreal quality—sculpture/performance combinations that resemble something out of a Cocteau film. She goes full-out Halloween with an installation that includes images of masks, objects made of the same, and performative pieces, such as one involving a pair of spinning fans facing off against each other while trying to blow the pages of an open book. Isenstein calls her exhibition a haunted house, and the fact that it’s mounted under the gallery’s bright lights only makes it that much creepier.