SO REAL — SURREAL

Location
​O'Hanlon Center for the Arts
Online Gallery Show

Exhibition Dates  
Nov 11, 2021 — Jan 20, 2022

Artist Roundtable Discussion
November 16 at 4 p.m. PST
Zoom Meeting Link

Juror
Michael Yochum

Address
616 Throckmorton Ave
Mill Valley, CA 94941

​Hours
Wed--Saturday, 11:00 - 2:00pm

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The O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley is presenting an online gallery show: SO REAL — SURREAL. It appears we are living in surrealistic times. The Surrealist Manifesto of André Breton was published almost 100 years ago, and the Dadaists were turning the world upside down to see how it looked. Now it is time to express a 2.0 version that speaks to our world of post fact, post rational, and multiple “realities.” The artists in this show share their dreams, hallucinations, fanciful imaginings, and unconscious through their uniquely “distorted” and “bizarre” lens. ​

Tom Gehrig's work, Beekeeper Illuminated by Full Moon and Spotlight​, is included in the show. ​Measuring 22" x 17", this oil on canvas mixed media piece features a beekeeper working next to a burning fire, with both the moon and an electric lamp casting light on the activity. Adding to the surreal intrigue, a schematic of a beehive is highlighted in the lower panel.

Beekeeper Illuminated by Full Moon and Spotlight, ©Tom Gehrig

​ABOUT THE JUROR
Michael Yochum is a founding partner of Arc Fine Arts in San Francisco. Since founding Arc in late 2009, he has worked with many individual collections and corporations, helping them to connect with local artists. He and his wife, Priscilla Otani (also a partner at Arc and a working artist) are avid art collectors with a significant emphasis on collecting local San Francisco Bay Area art.

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