Exhibition on view May 2 – June 29, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, May 3, 1-4pm
ARTIST RECEPTION Sunday, May 18, 1-3pm

FIRST SATURDAY RECEPTION Saturday, June 7, 1-4pm
ARTIST RECEPTION Sunday, June 15, 1-3pm

Featured artists: Brad Blair, Caitlin Gill, Greg McLemore, Julia Niederman, Eileen O’Donnell, Jane Wynn

The artists in this exhibition explore a space that is somewhere between mythology and surrealism, fantasy, and psychology. It is a space that organically combines these ideologies to develop a loosely structured narrative. These works of art, whether paintings, drawings, mixed media, or sculpture, are often dream-like and easily move between fairy tales and mythology. Animals play a crucial role.

Whether the lusty goat or ferocious tiger, the oddball aardvark or magical hare, animals have been a part of art for as long as we humans have been making it. They have stood alone, stood with humans, been hunted by humans, and even transformed themselves into animal-human hybrids.

This exhibition shows artists that employ animals and figures inspired by animals, to suggest and explore deeper states of consciousness and express various states of the human condition. It further aims to show how animals have embedded themselves deeply in our psyche, loaning us their traits and personalities, as we all continue to expand and convulse. While each of the artists comes at this from a different angle, they all work in that space between dream and myth, and frequently use animal or animal-human hybrids, as a method of expressing their ideas.