Bio: Skees was born and raised in Birmingham, Ala. Skees is a third-year graduate student working on his masters in studio art with a focus on printmaking. What: “”Coded,”” an exhibit in the Lionel ...

Scott Blake's “Barcode Art” looks interesting — it uses the icon of consumer-goods identification to create portraits of cultural icons. Just don't go to his Web site. It's a mess. But the guy's an ...