Not typically the type to check out gallery shows? Consider stretching your self-image this week. Lumber room will exhibit organic works by Louise Bourgeois (of gigantic spider sculpture fame), and Emily Counts' gleaming ceramic moth flutters into the city. Plus, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art will open their first post-Time-Based Art Festival show, and it looks like a banger. But if somehow none of that has enticed you, no worries—you've still got plant-inspired ambient, mushroom identification, and Ron Funches' chops to look forward to.

Emily Counts' ceramic style is always a little otherworldly, reflecting on nature and the fragility of life through surreal sculptural busts and curious wall pieces lit from within. In her last show at Oregon Contemporary, Sea of Vapors, Counts

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