Raleigh sprawls, Durham renovates and Chapel Hill preserves its turf. Amid these generalizations are the interstitial folds of the landscape you drive, bike or walk through every day. Los Angeles artist Ruben Ochoa dreams within these urban folds, creating sculpture and site-specific installation work from construction materials such as concrete, pipe and rebar. Both critical and propositional, his work opens the connections between society, architecture and the human scale of sculpture. He's shown in the 2008 Whitney Biennial and the 2004 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. —Chris Vitiello