Soft Sport

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• Jenny Heishman
• Monica Miller

Don't let the title fool you. Soft Sport, Jenny Heishman's first solo show at Howard House, has little to do with physical exertion. Using sculpture and digital photography, the artist takes on sports-related objects and topography in order to document autographical terrain. Both the abandonment of her family by her golf-loving father, and the strange logic of the golf course itself rally in a large (5 feet by 12 feet) wall-mounted mass of green titled Pre-golf in which form dominates content. While Pre-golf's undulating form with its pseudo-sexual contours is every bit as seductive as an airbrushed centerfold, it's also just as hollow. Elsewhere in the show, three large-format digital prints, created in collaboration with Monica Miller, reveal the artist sans her active wear and in compromising positions. In Birdie and Bogie, the titles' subtexts are further emphasized by strategically placed balls that suggest the, ahem, ins and outs of the game (above). Miss Florida finds Heishman reclining nude with knees coquettishly raised in a bubble bath of golf balls. Howard House, 604 Second Ave., 206-256-6399, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., through Sept. 18.