Scott Fife's most recent work—warning: more loosely Obama-related art—is this youthful (pre-beard) but wary and exhausted-looking Abe Lincoln. Fife's solo show in Chicago opened Friday. (Two of Fife's older sculptures, of wolves, are up at Platform in Seattle.)

^{Abe Lincoln (2009), archival cardboard, glue, screws, and pigment; 21 by 16 by 19 inches}