The Uncanny Traveler: Surrealism in the 21^st Century features a host of wonderfully weird artworks by 39 local artists who are incorporating the century-old art movement into their current work. These exceptionally talented artists, recruited by gallery curator James Walton, are reinterpreting and redefining surrealism, each in their own distinct ways. Some are processing surrealism through the lens of our modern times, while others move in a more nostalgic direction, and others still are envisioning a surreal future. All were asked to consider three concepts:

PORTALS - the pathways, thresholds, and mental / spiritual / religious / unconscious / ecstatic / hypnogogic states of mind that transport us to surreal…

LOCATIONS – the peculiar environments where lucid dreams occur and futuristic urban cityscapes glow with neon hues. Where liminal spaces give us the heebie-jeebies, ancient lands of our world become other-worldly, and impossible landscapes appear “real” while breaking reality.  Here we meet…

TRAVELERS - from anonymous figures to warped archetypes to beautiful monsters to fictional ancestors to the supernatural and the superheroes to powerful dream-versions of ourselves, these are the incredible beings that inhabit and travel through these dreamlike worlds.   

Join us as we explore the endless boundaries of surrealism from a wide variety of outstanding artists and, even more mind-bending, witness the impossible as curator James Walton distorts space and warps reality while attempting the ill-advised and utterly absurd pursuit of fitting 39 artists into a single 1,000-square-foot gallery space.

Participating Artists:

Margaret Abramshe

Sarah Beatty

David Blanchard

Benjamin Childress

Wyatt Combe

Olivia Dawson

Christian Degn

Grant Fuhst

Cara Jean Hall

Laura Hendricks

Susanna Herrmann

Holly Hind

Erica Houston

Todd Isom

Abraham Kimball

Kathryn Knudsen

Jamie Kyle

Desarae Lee

Jiyoun Lee-Lodge

Sara Luna

Nuha Moretz

Caro Nilsson

Dallin Orr

Nick Pedersen

Michael Phipps

Rebecca Pletsch

Brielle Porter

Andrew Rice

Arash Shoveiri

Samantha Snyder

Scott Stanley

Alison Stosich

Van Williamson

Justin Wheatley

Sri Whiple

Clinton Whiting

Peter Wiarda

Taylor Wright

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