>>Tomorrow is First Friday, so head over to Dupont for an evening of receptions with slightly buzzed gallery-goers. Stop by the Marsha Mateyka Gallery to wonder at Jae Ko’s gorgeously twisted paper sculptures. Studio Gallery opens a new show this week with Susan Cohen’s Frozen by Fire 2 that features her painted clay sculptures enriched with metals and other natural elements. Check out the map for other First Friday participating galleries.

>>Kendall Buster will be the woman of the hour tonight as she receives the 2006 Kreeger Museum Artist Award. The highly respected sculptor has been making waves with her microbiology-goes-giant pieces. Influenced by her scientific studies, Buster’s dynamic works — some big enough to walk through — are based in organic symmetries, ballooned into structures that might either envelop and protect, or hide and trap. Sometimes light and playful, sometimes dark and ominous, her sculptures will, at the very least, be unforgettable. After the invite-only reception this evening, Buster’s work will be on view to the public at the Kreeger Museum through November 25.

>>Project 4 opens with two solo shows by Daniel Davidson and Tricia Keightley this Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Good Cop/Bad Cop comes at you like Sipowitz and Simone, berating you with contradictions then apologizing for the methodology, all in a coordinated attempt to suss out the big picture. Davidson does this by painting puzzle pieces of unique “characters, spaces and styles” trying to fit with one another; while Keightley creates opposing forms that struggle to exist in the same space to make a unified image.