Both Kindra Crick and Carolyn Bernstein, jointly showing at the D.C. Jewish Community Center’s Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, operate at the intersection of art and science. For Crick, there’s an intriguing element of genetics-is-destiny to her approach—her grandfather was Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist and neuroscientist, and her grandmother was Odile Crick, a painter. The exhibit includes pale-hued works that meditate on physiology and chemistry—the recurring image of a fetus gestating within a brain is a particular favorite of the artist—as well as darker collages that incorporate laquered, flattened pieces of archival paper. Carolyn Bernstein’s works, focused on the experience of cancer, are more plainly emotive, though visually they are even more intricate. Her “Yew Tree Project” is a multifaceted, room-sized installation that delves into patients’ battles with cancer and the development of the drug Taxol from the yew tree. Bernstein takes body scans and other medical documentation and redraws them by hand. Her most notable piece is her complex flow chart, also drawn in her steady hand, that places “cancer diagnosis” at the center of a dizzyingly complicated series of decision trees, and whose byzantine form echoes that of the yew tree’s leaves.

Through April 24 at the D.C. Jewish Community Center’s Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, 1529 16th Street NW, Washington D.C. (202) 518-9400. Sunday-Thursday 10 a.m.-10 p.m., and Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Author Myla Goldberg (most recently of Wickett's Remedy) speaks tonight at the Jewish Community Center about her writing process, the inspiration behind her stories, and what it takes to put a novel together. Goldberg is best known for her terrific 2001 debut, Bee Season, in which a 9-year-old girl’s family falls apart after she wins the school spelling bee. She’s also the author of 2007 children's book Catching the Moon. [She's also the namesake of my fourth-favorite Decemberists song! -ed.]

Goldberg’s talk, titled "The Story Behind the Stories," is part of the JCC’s Authors Out Loud series, and is sponsored by the JCC and George Washington University.

MYLA GOLDBERG SPEAKS AT 7:30 P.M. AT THE DCJCC, 1529 16THE STREET NW, $10, (202) 518-9400

From tonight's pick by Caroline Jones: "One part kitsch, one part political satire, and one part glitter, the Kinsey Sicks, describe themselves as “America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet.” The group returns to D.C. on Saturday night with a new set of parodies, skewering everyone from Condoleezza Rice to Vanna White. What began 15 years ago with four guys attending a Bette Midler show dressed as the Andrews Sisters is now an off-Broadway revue that’s traveled around the country and the world."

Read the entire Kinsey Sicks pick for details.