Surrealism in American Art and American Surrealist Artists: From other websites, page two

Surrealism in American Art and American Surrealist Artists

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Patricia Nix: American Baroque is a 2017 exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art which says: "Just as Nix can be seen as an heir to American master collagist Joseph Cornell, she belongs among a group of women artists of Surrealism who included, in its founding generation, Jacqueline Lamba Breton, Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini, and Meret Oppenheim." Also see 8/6/17 article in palmbeachdailynews.com and artist's website. Accessed 9/17

Real/Surreal is a 2014 exhibit at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum's website says: "This exhibition explores the interconnections between the real and the imagined in early modern American art, with an emphasis on Surrealism and Magic Realism." Also, "The Mystery Beneath is a companion exhibition to Real/Surreal in the main galleries. Including paintings, prints, and drawings, it explores the lasting traditions of Surrealism and Magic Realism as they developed in Wisconsin during the twentieth century." The Mystery Beneath was on exhibit January 25, 2014 to April 13, 2014 Accessed February, 2015

Real/Surreal is a 2013 exhibit at the Akron Art Museum which says: "Featuring more than 60 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs dating from 1930 to 1955 drawn from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Real/Surreal examines how American artists used strikingly naturalistic details to imaginative images inspired by dreams and how they introduced disconcerting undertones into compositions that featured seemingly ordinary scenes." Accessed 3/17

Relatively: Michail Krasnow Retrospective is a 2017 exhibit at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts which says: "Hyper-realistic in form yet overwhelmingly surrealist in content, the subject matter and symbolism in Krasnow's work is often rooted in his dual identification with his Russian heritage and his life in the United States." Accessed 1/18

Robert Pepper, Selected Works of An Englishman Abroad, an exhibit held 3/11/00 - 6/11/00 at the Reading Public Museum. Includes essay by Robert Metzger, Ph.D, Director, CEO, Chief Curator, Reading Public Museum and Jane Runyeon, Co-curator. Accessed April, 2015.

Robert Therrien is a 2013 exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery which says: "Since the 1970s, Therrien (born 1947) has created work sourced from memory and the everyday -- a snowman, a chapel, a coffin, a keyhole, a stack of plates -- coaxing humble elements into surreal configurations through abstraction, repetition, color, and scale." Also see the Gagosian website. Accessed 3/17

Springs Surreal was a 1015-16 exhibit at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, which says: "Springs Surreal celebrates the work of four Colorado Springs-based artists, each working within the realms of dreamscape, fantasy, ready-made, and chance. These artists are looking to their Surrealist predecessors and at the same time personalizing and contemporizing the philosophies that defined the movement during its inception during the early 20th century between World Wars I and II, taking form first in literature then in visual arts." Accessed 10/16

Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer is a 2017 exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts which says: "The visual and conceptual conflation of Sharrer's archives ties her particular method of surrealist non sequitur and juxtaposition to the barrage of advertisements, horrific news clips, society gossip, and other ubiquitous material culture and social convention that provided fodder for Pop Art." Accessed 8/17

The Surreal Life: Gerry Snyder and Marco Rosichelli, an exhibit held September 25, 2009 - January 31, 2010 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Accessed March, 2015.

Surrealism: An American Attitude at the Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, March 23 - April 28, 2001, from ArtScope.net. Accessed August, 2015.

Surrealism USA - A Special Exhibition Review by Stan Parchin. From about.com. Accessed August, 2015.

Surrealism from AskArt. Accessed August, 2015.

"Surrealism" by James Voorhies, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Timeline of Art History section of the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. Accessed August, 2015

Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275 is a 2019 exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive which says: "Fein's subject matter alternates between the extremely personal -- portraits, self-portraits, familiar local landscapes, and other scenes from her daily life -- and the fantastical, with imagery of great cosmic eyes or boundless seas channeled from her rich imagination." Also see 11/20/19 article in Hyperallergic. Accessed 8/20.

Thomas Woodruff: Freak Parade is a 2006 exhibit held at the University Galleries, Illinois State University which says: "Thomas Woodruff's Freak Parade is an ambitious and dazzling parade of images that celebrates beauty in aberrance. The Parade's hapless yet noble characters march gaily across a black expanse, each member on a different panel." Accessed 12/21

Varujan Boghosian is a 2017 exhibit at the Currier Museum of Art which says: "New Hampshire's Varujan Boghosian (b. 1926) has created a singular niche for himself in the contemporary art world. His work challenges the viewer to look at common objects in new ways by presenting them in unique contexts. Boghosian takes on universal themes such as love and death, and success and failure, often through the lens of mythology." Also see 6/15/17 article in the Valley News. Also see entry in Wikipedia. Accessed 8/17

Alonso G. Smith: A Half Century of Social Surrealism. by Scott Beale. The webpage for the video says: "Produced during Alonso Smith's final years, this half-hour documentary explores the life and work of one of America's most fascinating surrealist painters whose legacy is an amazing body of work that stands as a visual document of the last half of the 20th Century." Accessed August, 2015.

San Jose Museum of Art produced a 5-part video series titled Todd Schorr: American Surreal, available online through ArtBabble. According to ArtBabble, "Todd Schorr has painted two large format paintings in which he addresses his influences as an artist - one reflects on the cartoon perspective and the other on the horror film perspective. In this video Todd offers insight into how the pieces came about and some of the subject matter in each. Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California's cartoon-based movement, dubbed Pop Surrealism, which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorrs astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryde" Accessed June, 2015.

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