UNREAL

Esaí Alfredo’s cinematic, large-scale nighttime paintings are narrative landscapes that create a participatory sense of engagement for the viewer. Using a palette of blacks, magentas and teals, the figure and the landscape meld together with an intimacy that celebrates the world around us while emphasizing our small part in it.  

Dan Attoe’s painterly compositions are both serene and commanding. Attoe’s irrationally scaled natural environments of trees, mountains, sunrises and sunsets are humorously at odds with the human form. This work plays with a contemporary fixation on the lived and digital world, where we fail to recognize and revel in the world around us.

Ever Baldwin’s beguiling painting, presented in an artist-made, hand-sculpted wooden frame, showcase a particular kind of dichotomy that emphasize psychodynamics through organic, body-centric abstraction and its framing devices. The palpable tension that is created allows for a wide range of interpretation that is void of logic but abundant with wonderment.    

Omar Barquet works across sculpture, collage, and printmaking to explore memory, personal biography, and the histories embedded in objects. His organic, tonal compositions balance subtlety with bold presence, creating immersive works that assert themselves powerfully within space.

Chris Bradley’s sculptures explore absurdity and irrationality through scale and material creating symbolic juxtapositions within the formal context of the gallery space. With a heavy dose of humor, these confounding artworks rely on their objecthood to express the futility of logic in traditional narrative structures. 

Ginny Casey paints interiors with objects — some stranger and more euphemistic than others — in illogical spaces. Almost biomorphic, the forms develop as she paints, drawing on the unconscious, psychoanalysis, free-association and dreams.

Josh Dihle blends traditional woodcarving with fluid, drawing-like lines, creating layered faces that appear shifting and unresolved. His graphite works on paper take a similar approach, combining symbols and intuitive mark-making. With each body of work, line becomes a unifying force by highlighting its expressive power beyond any single material.

Nereida Garcia-Ferraz’s colorful paintings present an amalgam of memories, transitions, experiences, and dreams, visually woven together through a cast of characters, both female and animal, set within natural environments. In her work, consciousness itself becomes central: how the shaping of internal thoughts around existence can foster introspection as a means of understanding, transformation, and self-discovery.

Al Freeman’s poly-filled vinyl sculptures are both comical and provocative, transforming everyday objects with a sharp sense of irony. Partially deflated and enlarged, these culturally specific icons appear both absurd and familiar, undermining their own authority. Through this distortion, Freeman critiques contemporary tropes that include consumerism, masculinity, academia, and nostalgia by using humor to expose their fragility.

Lola Gil constructs surreal, spatially disorienting scenes through a masterful interplay of foreground and background. Using perspective, reflection, and distortion, she creates uncanny mises-en-scène where warped imagery and strange objects collide with figurative elements, unsettling—and at times exaggerating—idealized suburban imagery.

Naomi Hawksley creates dreamlike graphite drawings of female figures and animals that hover between the autobiographical and the universal. Rendered with a delicate, controlled hand, her works feel both intimate and elusive. Often set within found or constructed frames - such as the undersides of doll beds - the drawings gain an added layer of curiosity, appearing contained yet just out of reach, where distance itself becomes a form of intimacy.

Jared McGriff’s paintings depict real and imagined figures drawn from his family’s history, placed within landscapes that subtly reveal suspended moments imbued with a quiet confidence of belonging. Their narrative qualities suggest movement from one place to another, similar to paragraphs in a work of fiction, capturing a fleeting moment in the arc of a protagonist’s journey.  

Kitty Rauth’s “kiln-slumped” glass table-wear pieces are rendered duly inoperative representing a time and space where utility and functionality becomes irrational. Choices around etiquette, indulgence, and restraint are amplified and, for Rauth, create a site as a catalyst where societal expectations around health and wellness converge.

Nina Surel’s ceramic sculptures and wall reliefs explore themes of mysticism, womanhood and the timeless connection between the body and the earth. In her work, the female figure takes on a symbolic role that embodies the organic nature of the feminine earth: embracing, nurturing, and welcoming, yet also mysterious, magical, and resilient.