Art spotlight: Miles Mendenhall, Conrad Ventur and Lisha Bai

Opening: Operating independently, three artists will transform Franklin Art Works' walls, floor and air with new pieces today. Minneapolis' own Miles Mendenhall offers huge, enigmatic silvery shapes in a minimalist mode that he's concocted by reviving an early-20th-century process known as carbon printing. Up to 5 feet square, his prints involve pixelated images manipulated and layered to produce unusual depths of color and tone. New York artist Conrad Ventur has installed "If You Knew," a video tribute to Nina Simone in which the singer's image is refracted through a rotating prism. Lisha Bai, also of New York, is redoing FAW's floor with wave patterns cut from black-and-white vinyl flooring. All this and a party, too.