A strange and colorful apartment building is opened to your prying eyes. Inside are cartoonish figures—faceless humans and fantastic-looking creatures. This is Future Creature Sleeps, a digital print on canvas by Eunjung Hwang, hung in the window for your voyeurism. In Hwang’s crowded scene, humanoids in tighty-whities are connected by a red lightning bolt above their heads. Fanged, hungry-looking animals are hidden in the leaves, situated on what in any other building might be called the penthouse. Also on view as part of “Innovation and Imagination” are strong prints by Mark Zaffron and multimedia works by Theodora Varnay Jones. These and 13 other members of Berkeley’s Kala Art Institute are being showcased here through October 11. Zaffron’s multilayered print creations seem to combine old handwritten documents with photographs of a down-and-out street: We see gorgeous old houses falling into disrepair next to a storefront that blares LOTTO. Jones’ M10-1007 resembles calligraphy circles inscribed on vertical graphite stripes, red and black on cream, a pattern repeated in her other works on view. Elsewhere, Barbara Robertson’s kaleidoscopic pieces riff on stained glass and various invented geometries. SAM Gallery, 1220 Third Ave., 343-1101, www.seattleartmuseum.org. Free. 10:30 a.m.–7 p.m. ADRIANA GRANT

Tuesdays-Sundays. Starts: Sept. 18. Continues through Oct. 11, 2008