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Sabrina Small's stainy little ink drawings on paper (at Grey Gallery & Lounge) are fine. They are competent surrealism-lite (what many people call pop surrealism, which is a misnomer), maybe even a little better than competent, giving off sparks of weirdness beyond their easy subject matter (twins, especially conjoined—weird!).

But those paintings pretty much slid right off my consciousness after I saw them. What stuck are Small's stark felt hand-stitchings taken from protests in Berlin. They're so stilted and yet warm. One is above (Egged Cop), more are here, and this April 30 silkscreen party at the gallery is based on them.