Compound Gallery (a Portland gallery that hosts international shows but also tends to focus on the new generation of Japanese artists) featured pieces by artists including Ren Sakuri (my favorite was a trio of colorfully afro'd women swarming around a long-barreled gun), Re:Verse (paper-collage backgrounds with felt children in the foreground, and terrible events unfolding in the meantime), Auurizum (cute animal-head-hooded figures), Meredith Dittmar (polymer figures), and Junpei Kawamura (amazing, incredibly detailed women comprised of layers of paper hand-inked and colored). The fluidity of Kawamura's fashionably styled females was remarkable considering the pieced-together nature of the whole.