My last stop was Gallery1988, for "Faces and Spaces" featuring Nathan Stapley (below):

In his first solo show, Stapley has over 80 small paintings on display through January:

Almost entirely watercolor or gouache on paper, Stapley's paintings are largely playful and lighthearted:

Loosely organized into sub-collections, like musicians, movie characters, or urban features, the portraits are of widely familiar subjects: