Visitors to The Rose Art Museum this summer should not come expecting the ordinary. Its two exhibits-I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time: Recent Works by Erwin Wurm and Sarah Walker: Paintings-run through July 30 and display two leading contemporary artists in a number of mediums.

Wurm's exhibit is the largest to date and features a bevy of his "one-minute sculptures," in which models pose with everyday objects in unusual scenarios. Here, heads are found stuck in a woman's blouse, french fries emerge from nostrils and between toes; fruits of all kinds appear in a cornucopian bloom, scattered across urban scenes.

Among other works, the exhibit also features the debut of "Fat House," an interactive edifice which viewers can enter. Inside is an animated video of the house itself, addressing guests and musing on its "fatness." It is so gargantuan that it fills almost all of the museum's Lois Foster Wing.

Born in Austria, Wurm hopes to blend an absurdist aesthetic with the performance and conceptual art of the 1960s. While Wurm's work has been displayed in individual exhibits throughout the world, this is his first in the United States.

Walker's exhibit, in the Mildred S. Lee Gallery, is her first individual show in a museum. A Boston painter, she creates vibrant works that span realms of science and technology, layering grids and spacial systems of more visceral elements. According to her Web site, she hopes to create "paintings that act as retinal reprogramming tools which amplify our capacity for digesting complex information."

Walker recieved The Rappaport Prize, Massachusetts largest annual public award for individual artists, in 2005.

The Rose Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Sarah Walker will give a gallery talk Saturday, June 3 at 2 p.m. The event is free with museum admission. A "One-minute sculpture" program for families will be held on Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The event costs $25 per family.