Project 4's current show by Calla Thompson, "Hero and Baddie," turns the good guy/bad guy stereotype on its head. In her City Lights pick for this week, Maura Judkis wrote, "Is the guy with the ski mask and tattoos throwing darts? No, they’re roses. Is the man with the slingshot, hands thrown up in the air, guilty of mischief? Maybe he’s just defending himself. Hero and baddie are innocent until proven otherwise, but they seem pretty good at covering their tracks." Read her entire pick on "Hero and Baddie" here.

“Hero and Baddie” is on display at Project 4 from noon-6 p.m., Wed.-Sat., through April 18.

Gina Tibbott, the George Washington University MFA grad who staged six consecutive games of on-campus SpaghettiO-pong with classmate Kenny George last May, is again fucking with your childhood nostalgia. Tibbott's new solo show, the Tibbott Family Pet Burial Recovery, opens tonight at Project 4 Gallery.

In sharp contrast to last spring's conspicuous consumption, this exhibition finds Tibbott getting down to the bone: Tibbott dug up all the pets in her family's backyard, made casts of their bones, and put them on display.

According to Project 4: "Porcelain casts of tiny skeletons that remain of these once loyal companions lay in recreated tombs as scientific photographic studies of the remnants ... A trained archaeological researcher herself, Tibbott presents these very personal fragments in a cold, detached, manner as if this were the study of a civilization long passed."

While Tibbott's "Spaghetti Bros" stunt placed classic kiddie food in the seedy context of frat culture, "Recovery" accomplishes a more serious time-warp with its archaeological excavation of childhood heartbreaks past. Leaving the frats behind, "Recovery" instead accesses a different element of Tibbott's college experience: The exhibit puts both her archaeology BA and ceramics MFA to work.

The exhibit runs through August 9 at Project 4, 903 U St. NW.