This show must be seen.

New York artist Benjamin Entner's installation "Ego Sum" from the Contemporary Arts Center in Las Vegas has now traveled to Olympia and can be seen at the gallery at South Puget Sound Community College. This new version of the show is called "Mining the Ego," and like his installation in Las Vegas, it fills the gallery with monstrous figures drawn with black markers on blow-up vinyl sculptures that overwhelm the gallery space.

Entner draws himself in less-than-idealized and unflattering poses similar to those of classical Greco-Roman and Renaissance sculpture, creating an "awkward dialogue between his contemporary parodies and the historical works ... that questions and challenges perspectives of beauty, proportion, and the idealized man."

Read Alec Clayton's full review of "Mining The Ego" in the Music & Culture section.

"MINING THE EGO," noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, and by appointment, through Aug. 22, South Puget Sound Community College, Kenneth J Minnaert Center for the Arts Gallery, 2011 Mottman Rd. SW. Olympia, 360.596.5527