Nothing in the Whitney Museum of American Art's oracular 2010 Biennial Exhibition impressed me more than the work of Los Angeles painter Lesley Vance. Now her work - sadly, only two pieces - figures ...

Is this someone you know? Only in your mind. Does any of this look familiar to you? Have you been here? If you have, consider yourself *** surrealist. At the Joscelyn, an exhibition of surrealism ...

The old proverb states that: "There is nothing new under the sun." This can feel very true when surveying the landscape of our paint-by-numbers creativity. One thing that stifles new ideas is the fear ...

Carroll Cloar’s exhibit “The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South” delves into themes of the Southern Gothic realm. Cloar’s works express a combination of abstract surrealism ...

While in university, I hatched the term, "abstract surrealism," which is not a far stretch for people today. I was told back in the 1970s and 1980s, "they are incongruent terms" and "it can't be both.

The Joslyn Art Museum featured a surrealist art exhibit in 1986, drawing crowds questioning what the pieces meant. The surrealist movement started during World War I when the horror that was war ...

Pictured are a few pieces of Jimmy Mustion’s artwork, including, from top to bottom, a segment of piece depicting “Chinese Parade/Catfish Jumbo,” a drawing of a day lily, and a portrait of ...