This month, another of Austin’s talented coterie of visual artists opens an exhibition of painting, drawing, and sculpture that asks the eerie question, “won’t you be my neighbor?” I say eerie because these images are less Mr. Rogers, more David Lynch, dealing with the persistent surveillance of the modern American upper-class neighborhood – Ring cameras, doorbells, etc. – that so often imbue city dwellers with a pervasive sense of anxiety rather than security. Ben Siekierski’s images reflect that with surreal flaming lawns, disembodied eyes, and other markers of a nascent undulating evil in the mundane. Opening reception is this Friday 6-9pm, on Friday the 13th no less. – Lina Fisher
Through Jan. 11