We have previously covered Alice Zilberberg on Surrealism Today. Statement In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy. As an urbanite, functioning day-to-day in a fast-paced, built environment can be emotionally unsettling. The artist regrounds herself in the sense of calm issued by these animals. These creatures reinstate a presence, a tranquility, … [Read More...] about Alice Zilberberg – Meditations
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Cheryl Frey Richards
Statement Recently, I have been exploring life’s destinations and how they are recorded. I am fascinated with how people have documented their memories; presently and in the past with social and pictorial fervor. My … [Read More...] about Cheryl Frey Richards
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Arabella Proffer
Series: Acids and Sugars This series brings together my interests in botany, microbiology, space, disease, and the evolution of cells. I subconsciously explore the relationships between anatomy, biology, nature, … [Read More...] about Arabella Proffer
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Franc Pena
Franc Pena is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works seek to challenge the collective subconscious ego and dominant cultural world views. This series calls into question assumptions of anthropocentrism which can be found in human culture nearly universally. (A notable religion absent from those … [Read More...] about Franc Pena
Francesca Harvie
Artist Statement I like to illustrate uncomfortable, weird, and complex personified feelings. I try to make my viewer uncomfortable and introspective, yet interested. The goal is to put onto paper in illustration what I cannot in words, and reach out to others who may empathize. Also, color is … [Read More...] about Francesca Harvie
Important Contemporary Pop-Surrealist and Collage Artists
Known alternatively as the Lowbrow movement, Pop Surrealism is an art form that originated in LA’s underground scene in the 1970s. Like other surrealist art forms, lowbrow art strives to reach deep into the unconscious mind and bring to life our innermost thoughts. Our compulsions, hidden memories, … [Read More...] about Important Contemporary Pop-Surrealist and Collage Artists
Slobodan Lončarević
Biography Slobodan Lončarević was born in Podgorica, Montenegro, during the Yugoslavia union, in 1960. He lives and works in Podgorica. He is a self-taught painter, who used literature from the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts and the exercises of Albert Durer for his art education. He studied art … [Read More...] about Slobodan Lončarević
Jem Ham
Jem Ham is an Australian, self-taught artist who started painting on brick walls with water at the age of four. Fascinated by the way the watermarked the brick and the ability to bring to life something from within, his love for art was born. Since then, it has been a journey of self-discovery through art, fuelled by a passionate need to create. His work aims to visually represent the nature … [Read More...] about Jem Ham
Valeriu Buev
The paintings of Moldovan artist Valeriu Buev explore the strange and poetic tragedy of the human condition. Although Buev uses the language of surrealism and dream, his stunning images remain fully rooted both psychically and technically in material reality. Through the processes of distortion and imagination, Buev confronts the stark costs of humanity’s darker tendencies, such as war and … [Read More...] about Valeriu Buev
Return of the Salvador Dalí Tarot
When most people think about Salvador Dalí, the first thing that comes to mind is likely his mind-bending work as one of the vanguards of surrealism—melting clocks, spindly-limbed monsters, bizarre tableaus … [Read More...] about Return of the Salvador Dalí Tarot
Luciano Sanchez
Luciano Sanchez is a lowbrow pop-surrealist artist who focuses on themes of Kustom Kulture through post-apocalyptic, vintage, and science-fiction lenses. Artist Statement My work is within the movement … [Read More...] about Luciano Sanchez
Gadzooxtian
Biography Melbourne artist Xtian was conceived in East Germany but born in Hungary – that makes him one part Australian and two parts former communist. He’s been actively collaging for two-plus decades – … [Read More...] about Gadzooxtian
Albane Simon
About Albane Simon Imagine a world where linear time has lost all relevance. A place where past memories and future visions dance in a familiar present gone awry, this is where nightmares collide with … [Read More...] about Albane Simon
James McCarthy
James McCarthy is a surrealistic landscape painter. McCarthy's psychedelic/cosmic mindscapes wrestle with the concepts of space-time and the afterlife. Artist's Statement I'm a surrealist but I also … [Read More...] about James McCarthy
“The Surrealists” Film on Kickstarter
Surrealism: a 20th 21st-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind... One hundred years ago, with their world on the … [Read More...] about “The Surrealists” Film on Kickstarter
Stephen Gibb
Artist Statement I imagine a world where the visually rich language of fairy tales and nursery rhymes extends into adulthood. The traditional nature of this kind storytelling is best presented with … [Read More...] about Stephen Gibb
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