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As portraiture exhibitions go, this one is pretty crackling: Osama bin Laden in airbrush, five-foot-square photographs of blood-soaked extreme fighters, a painstaking oil rendering of Louisa May Alcott, a Marlene Dietrich-inspired video presentation, and a sculptural self-portrait using years' worth of garbage are just some of the faces greeting viewers here. In all, nine local artists--Ernest Arthur Bryant III, Katinka Galanos, David Hamlow, Suzanne Kosmalski, Anthony Marchetti, Peter B. Becker Nelson, Ben Olson, Xavier Tavera, and Jay Wittenberg--offer up more than thirty unconventional portraits. 50 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul; 651-266-1030; www.mmaa.org