Depicting strange sexual acts and fetishes, Japanese shunga art was popular during the 16th and 17th centuries. You can see traces of it today in modern anime and here in the paintings of Fuco Uedo and Esao Andrews (through June 7). Japanese artist Uedo’s acrylic-based pieces feature women exposing subtle bits of skin—an elbow here, an ankle there—as they wander through perilous landscapes. The New York–based Andrews uses oil on wood panels to create figures like one woman standing doe-eyed in murky swamp water, entangled in tentacles belonging to unidentifiable creatures. The results are dreamy yet disconcerting, mysterious and vaguely arousing. Roq La Rue Gallery, 2312 Second Ave., 374-8977, www.roqlarue.com. Free. 1–6 p.m. ERIKA HOBART

May 17-June 7, 1-6 p.m., 2008