Before / After Thought — Surrealism Group Exhibition Opening Reception

Surrealism never settled its own argument: is the unconscious reached by letting go, or by building it on purpose? Before / After Thought puts seven painters in one room along exactly that spectrum. Robert Zurer , Anya Rosen and Amy Swartelé let the image surface out of the mark — automatic drawing, chalk pastel, chimeric beings. Claire Hashman , James Stamboni and Jim Radakovich engineer it instead — mirrored mandalas, old-master rendering on brass, a flying saucer over a very cal...