DREAM LIVING
An exploration into the subconscious.
Featuring 28 artists from around the world.
DREAM LIVING
An exploration into the subconscious | Unique perspectives of what reality truly means through the eye of the beholder.
Featured Artists:
Lina Alousta, John Boudreau, Katie Brown, Mary Paz Cervera, Rossi Charmoli, B.Kirk Chernansky, Ariel Cohen, Emel Cveikcan, Michael Doering, Salvator Esposito, Agnes Gomori, Gringuts, Moises Hergueta, Sergio Iturri, Shelina Khimji, Jacqueline Kumer, Ekaterina Kuzmina, Laura Prochilo, Karen Prince, Jamie Roberts, Sona Sahakian, Guiseppe Santagata, Valentina Stefanescu, Ksenia Sokolovskaya Michael Wagner, Annalise Weidman, Anni Vahlqvist, Matina Vossou.
April 27, 2022 -June 3rd , 2022
OVERVIEW
As Jung said, "Life does not come from events, but from us”. Human behavior is the endless stream of perceptions, feelings, and thoughts at both the conscious and unconscious levels, but what the eye cannot produce, the brain completes the external on an unconscious level. We create the meaning of the events around us. The meaning is and always was artificial. So, what is the reality?
These works explore the inner world of the human mind based on the unconscious and the journey to the inside of one’s unique perspective of what reality truly means through the eye of the beholder.
ORGANIZED BY
Emma McMullin, Director of Curatorial Affairs; Rocio Montiel, Chief Curator; Antonia Chela, Apprentice Curator.
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ARTISTS
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Instagram:@linaalousta_art
Surrey - UK-based painter that has recently discovered the joy of abstract art and decided to combine it with my past experience in printmaking during my BA Hons degree in Graphic Design at Kingston University to create intuitive bold gestural marks. Inspired by colour around me and in nature throughout the seasons, I absorb and indulge in the feelings that arouse and respond by painting the emotions that invigorate my soul. I aim to capture recent magical experiences and childhood memories of the sea and skies evoking the sense of energy and movement in my paintings.
Most of the time you'll find me working in acrylics, with the occasional dabble in watercolours which are immensely relaxing. I tend to incorporate mixed media within my pieces. Layering, scratching and editing are all part of my process that create hidden treasures and build upon the richness of the layered textures as the painting starts to take form and shape. Creativity is the magic that I am grateful for and happy to share. It delights me to hear that my paintings stir emotion within you and trigger joyful memories
Instagram:@johnboudreauartist
“2 but not 2” is a Buddhist philosophy of the oneness of life and the environment depicted in this painting.
Instagram: @Katiebrownart
A lot of my work is abstract and expresses my personal opinions. This piece is a visual representation of how I view women in power.
Instagram: @marypazartist
I create a multidisciplinary art project that focuses on the analysis of the construction of mourning and memory, and its healing processes. From her own griefs to the collective memory of a society victim of violent situations. She continuously addresses the issue of gender-based violence, exploring its incomprehensible derivatives.
Instagram: @eye2oyo
My works come from a desire to search and reveal through practice the hidden parts of myself and the shared reality that I find myself a part of. At the same time, exploring the processes of making art and the components like shape, color, and space; or gestural marks and brush strokes that make up a painting or image.
Having worked in the field of advertising art direction, my work as a fine artist often combines writing and imagery to convey a message. Like a Zen storyboard, my scrolls have been inspired by the ancient Japanese art form known as emaki.
In keeping with this tradition of narrative scrolls, "I See a Light Trilogy" tells an unfolding story on rolls of cotton in three parts: The Awakening, The Search and The Enlightenment. On the reverse side is a poem by James Dillet Freeman, I AM THERE, making the rewinding of the scroll an experience of hope and comfort
Instagram: @arielcohen_art
My work primarily explores the relationship between identity and environment.
Instagram: @emelcevikcanpaintart
By observing the details of everyday surroundings, I find endless ideas from Nature. Working with watercolor has always been the choice for me because it flows from the brush and is never the same application.
In our day, when time flows very rapidly when we can look at everything with a short break, inspired by art and based on the joy of life it gives, love in my paintings. Sharing. I try to convey our amazing transformation with nature to people with the language of colors and forms. Art and nature are the basis of our existence. Life without art is like a desert without water. These days when the pandemic has kept people away from each other, I think that the only element that allows us to reproduce life is that we should be inspired by realizing the works of art. Replicates. Converts. It overcomes the obstacles and enables us to exist.
Instagram: @michael.doering.art
I believe a true artist never really arrives, and I see my work as a life-long journey of change and evolution. In many of my pieces, I weave a story, highlight contrasts, or push viewers to look at things through a different lens. Although my compositions and basic ideas usually begin with a plan, I am most comfortable working in a free and expressive style.Color, tension and energy are vital elements in my art, and I am constantly building up and breaking down while I work.When in doubt, I go with my gut, and if that means tearing something apart that I just created, I do it!
My art has been described as fresh and edgy, but at the end of the day, I just want it to be non-pretentious, accessible, and a true story
Instagram: @salvatore_esposito_artworks
The proposed collection of artworks are all mirroring back aspects of a utopian/dystopian urban life. Despite being abstract, these works have all been completed, using urban architectural texture as inspiration. Landscapes created as collages, using the very same elements that are utilised in everyday life context.
In some works, you may note the use of torn off paper pieces, utilised as a reminder of torn off posters on city walls, all covering one another, each trying to steal the others position and attract more attention. A kind of street art dragging into an internal space
Instagram: @artgomori
I'm a multidisciplinary artist, who’s a big believer in the combined healing power of art, nature and laughter.
In the last few years, digital painting and drawing have become my main channel of artistic self-expression. I often take nature-based photos during my walk in the nearby woods. It could be a picture of a tree trunk or the clouds, which then I use as my inspiration to create a visual story. My work reflects my deep connection with my heritage, nature and the divine source. As a channel for the higher realm, I allow the theme of my artworks to emerge intuitively.
Humour plays a big part in my life and creative work. Even if an artwork has a more serious theme, I insert magical elements, such as imaginary creatures, to ease its heaviness. They are a reminder that when we believe in magic; we open the doors to possibilities around us.
Instagram: @gringuts
Someone once said that suffering flows through life like water. Suffering is somehow an undeniable reality of existence. Through the pain, we come into this world and through pain, we leave it. In its deepest sense suffering is the beginning of every personal story in this Schopenhauerian universe of tormented and agonized beings.
With my work, I am searching for the beginning. Beginning of personal story, the story of the generation. Of the generation, that grew up at the feet of the shuttered empire, agonizing beyond the iron curtain, and experienced adolescence and youth in its ruins. Of the generation, that is prone to self-destruction and cynicism, even nihilism, driven by the principle of fleshly pleasures infused with a necessity for self-punishment, thus tranquilizing pain caused by the surrounding world of chaos, confusion, and flux. Everything in this generation lives on the very border of opposites.
Instagram: @moiseshergueta_
Art helps me to create a small part of the world. With a deep sense of selfish all of this I do for personal satisfaction, I do it for me. But what is not given does not exist. Always with a pencil in hand, sketching, with multiple ideas rising from doodles, thoughts, photographs, dreams, memories… always listening to the birds that sang in my head; those are transforming into other, When a spark seduces me, I then developed it into a finished work, with a technique in constant process of research, experimentation and learning that never ends. My work is figurative form but with imaginative content. Always looking for impact. What has no explanation, it is pathetic to try to explain.
My favorite word is "ineffable
Instagram: @sergioiturri_
Just observe.
Instagram: @shelinak
Art has allowed me to dip my brush into my soul and paint away my fantasies. The imaginary places and dreams that I express on the canvas permit me to lose myself and fulfil my inner longings by bringing them alive in a painting. Colour is my powerful symbolism as it reflects my happy persona and my ideal world imagery.
Instagram: @jacjaciii
I often see the act of drawing as my attempt to retrace fragmented memories (especially when I wake up from dreams that were so real that I always wonder which side of the worlds I live in). I believe human imagination is one of the most important and infinite resources that we can apply in anything we create, no matter how bizarre or wicked of a creature, design, or landscape we imagine. I don't know where my world will eventually take me, but I hope to share my fascination for the surrealistic world as a glimpse or window for others that might connect and resonate as well.
Member of the Eurasian Art Union, Member of the Union of Russian Artists, permanent participant of exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Thier Favorite direction in painting is symbolism.
Instagram: @lauraprochilomakesart
Being alive, and being uniquely human, is something that all people have a primal, archetypal understanding of. After all, the things that are often most private are also the most universal: fears, sex, dreams, secrets. It is only when we try to express this concept, to pin the specifics to the wall, that explanations slip through our hands like a dream upon waking. Words seem clumsy and crude when we try to express truths that we know in our hearts.
In this sense, the pursuit of art transcends and picks up where language leaves off. Through a variety of mediums, I am always on the hunt to create metaphors through visual means that communicate what words cannot.
The world we live in is usually repetitive, often dull, and occasionally ridiculous. Inside the tedious boxes of our day to day lives, we can sometimes feel like we are the punchline to a cosmic joke. But every now and then, we are struck by something different and divine. When we least expect it, beauty takes us by surprise and light shines in the darkest places. It is this dichotomy that interests me the most, and in these crosshairs the inspiration for my art is born.
I have been an art student and an amateur artist for most of my life. As a psychotherapist whose primary mode of communication is. verbal, I have a special appreciation for the visual world and the unspoken messages that can be conveyed through artistic expression.
Instagram: @amendedarchives
By observing the details of everyday surroundings, I find endless ideas from Nature. Working with watercolor has always been the choice for me because it flows from the brush and is never the same application.
In our day, when time flows very rapidly, when we can look at everything with a short break, inspired by art and based on the joy of life it gives, love in my paintings. Sharing. I try to convey our amazing transformation with nature to people with the language of colors and forms. Art and nature are the basis of our existence. Life without art is like a desert without water. In these days when the pandemic has kept people away from each other, I think that the only element that allows us to reproduce life is that we should be inspired by realizing the works of art. Replicates. Converts. It overcomes the obstacles and enables us to exist
Instagram: @sonyl_artartart7
Her works are about the search for an inner experience of time, where memories are made experienceable in the shape of fixation and transformation. She strives for a fusion of past and present , which creates a dynamic and timeless dimension. The transience, the cycle of human existence - life, death and rebirth - plays an important role in this; this transforms our reality and strengthens our human consciousness.
In her art she wants to stimulate people's imagination and sensory experiences in which the traces of the past are revived in the present, which remains anchored in her memory and thus enriches her personal history. In this way she wants to inspire people to make an inner journey by really feeling and discovering for themselves what the treasury of their existence is.
Instagram: @giusanta79
I work through a rather philosophical and slow process to construct my images. The spark of an idea leads to a long and laborious period of contemplation and reasoning, which is often filled with doubt. In this arduous and contradictory journey of fullness and emptiness, photography like poetry unveils by hiding and suggests by not revealing. On the one hand, it traces out a path and on the other underlines the impossible.
My work deals with existential issues such as vulnerability, the transience of life, and the body as a metaphor for the solitary, metaphysical quest of the soul. Stretching the limits of the physical body, I try to revise the confines of perception and create portraits that are a reflection of the mystery of the human condition
The experiment brought me the satisfaction of understanding the various materials that caught my attention due to the potential that I saw and exploited. I've always been looking for new textures and touches.
Instagram: @patrisiart
Freedom is an essential thing for every creature in this world. As a person who was born in Russia, who was fighting against this horrible regime, fighting for freedom and peace, I can say that my art is about freedom. These bright colors which I use in my paintings, huge formats – all these things are a hidden, almost silent protest against the life under repressions and fear in this country. Now, when I live in Georgia, far away from my homeland I feel freedom with every piece of my body. My life, as well as my art, has been divided into before and after. In my new artistic era, I want to explore the nature of freedom. I want every work I create to be the embodiment of freedom. With my art I want to encourage people not to be afraid of freedom. Yes, it sounds strange, but where I come from, people are afraid of freedom and live like slaves in a cage.
Instagram: @giusanta79
For me photography is a means of poetic expression. I'm interested in images that reveal something that goes beyond everyday experience. Images that call up questions instead of providing answers. And images whose appearance does not evoke rationality, but a meditative gaze.
Instagram: @annalise.weidman
In painting, I use bold colors to create surreal effects. I’m interested in distorting figures, and allegories. Feel free to message me on Instagram for inquires
I am a colorblind professional artist. I work mainly with acrylic and oil paints. My special skills also include digital art and I’m curious to try new technologies like augmented reality (AR). My art deals with everyday things in a fictional environment.
I often hide the messages as well as dangers, which turns the normal layout completely on its head. I use strong lines and my work mixes up a cartoonish style that I mix with abstract softness. For me, art is the beginning through which I express my thoughts.
My work deals with existential issues such as vulnerability, the transience of life, and the body as a metaphor for the solitary, metaphysical quest of the soul. Stretching the limits of the physical body, I try to revise the confines of perception and create portraits that are a reflection of the mystery of the human condition
Instagram: @matinavossou
I believe that every face is a journey. Probably looking at faces is going to be our longest trip. Every color is an emotion. What we feel is the only present we know and by this, we define our lives. Every one of us is a perfectly unfinished mosaic of emotions and ideas. Everything is connected.
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