November 12, 2001
   
The seven-foot-four sentinel at the door, "Dirtman Shows the Monsters," is made of cast dirt and holds a wooden rack of gargoyles. Nearby, another dark (in aspect and color) human figure cast in dirt climbs across a ceiling while similar creatures made of wax drip and melt through a hole in the bottom of their aquarium. In the next room, "Wolf" pads across a wide pedestal built from a truckload of books, marked with a trail of tar. And "Score," an All American Scoreboard Model MP-5209 made in Pardeeville, Wisconsin, gives the following (hopeful?) update: fourth quarter, 14:59 left, Wolves 7, Theory 0. Through Nov. 10. (Stux, 529 W. 20th St. 352-1600.) Peter Schjeldahl