“Birth Machine Baby: H. R. Giger and Mark Prent”

Fans of Alien might want to check out this show featuring works by Swiss artist H.R. Giger (1940–2014), creator of the eponymous monster that rampaged through that film and its sequels. Joining Giger is Mark Prent, a Canadian artist with a similar taste for grotesque surrealism. Both offer figurative sculptures that may leave you a bit spooked. Giger, for instance, presents machine/human hybrids, including the titular piece that portrays a pair of steampunk infants who look like they've just climbed out of a jar of formaldehyde. Prent, meanwhile, offers a lifelike rendition of a gymnast performing a balance beam handstand—lifelike, that is, if you overlook the fact that his legs have been transformed into a merman’s tail.