“Obsessive Compulsive Awesome”

When Arthur Bates and Christopher Cascio aren’t rocking the crowd, they’re decking the halls. The locals known in the music scene as Wicked Poseur are part of the art scene, too; each has created painstakingly detail-oriented drawings for the show “Obsessive Compulsive Awesome” at ArtStorm.

Bates’s intricate black-and-white ink designs recollect Native American art, or maybe something lifted from an Asian rug. You can stare at the notebook-size work for hours trying to decipher how each piece — each line, square, circle, triangle, etc. — completes the whole. You can almost imagine Bates hunched over a sheet of paper carefully placing each zigzag so it doesn’t bleed or bump into the next.

Cascio creates lists of words that also decorate the pages he works on. Thick lines flowing down one page are made up of the repeated phrases “you die” and “we ride.” On another, lists of words pertaining to random themes crisscross the paper. See these and the other results of Bates and Cascio’s dueling OCD from noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Through March 22. ArtStorm, 708 Mathis. For information, call 713-802-0472 or visit www.artstormhouston.com. Free
Saturdays, Sundays. Starts: Feb. 23. Continues through March 22, 2008