“Dreamscapes” - MCA’s 6th Annual ‘BEST' Juried Art Exhibition

Sponsored by the LILAC Foundation

Marion Cultural Alliance is thrilled to present the sixth annual juried art exhibition, "Dreamscapes: Beyond Reality" in celebration of 100 years of Surrealism. This exhibition presents a unique opportunity for local artists to delve into the world of the subconscious, the fantastical, and the bizarre, and to showcase their unique interpretations of a century-old art movement that continues to captivate and inspire.

Exhibit will be on display at Brick City Center for the Arts in downtown Ocala through October 28, 2024. For sales inquiries, please contact gallery@mcaocala.com or call us at 352-369-1500.

YOU CAN VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE PIECE TO WIN THE "COMMUNITY FAVORITE" AWARD - VOTING ENDS 10/27 AT MIDNIGHT.

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A Star is Born

Marjorie Dodrill

$1,450.00

Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Mixed Media
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: With all our rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center, my imagination fired off and I looked at some space pictures and thought a painting would be interesting.

Salvation Disguised In Gray

Salvation Disguised In Gray

Alysathena

$285.75

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 0.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic paint on canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: Dreams of my memories

Ascension

Mel Fiorentino

$4,500.00

Dimensions: 48 x 36 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): oil on canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: My painting Ascension captures a figure enveloped in a dreamy, wispy atmosphere, evoking a sense of floating, rising, or even falling. The ethereal mood invites viewers to interpret the movement as both physical and spiritual, embodying themes of transformation and transcendence.

Tunnel Of Love

Donald Frame

$125.00

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Archival Photographic Material
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: A mannequin standing on a loading dock behind a Bloomingdales caught my attention. It was out of place and uniquely absurd with the trash, concrete, and truck as contrast.

Soul Searching

Carol Gallion

$850.00

Dimensions: 30 x 22 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic , collage.
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: It all began with a dream.

Bird Brain

Tara Hagood

$175.00

Dimensions: 11 x 11 x 0.25
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil painting & Collage
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The flighty yet whimsical nature of thoughts, the abstracted, loud interiors that paint my dreams, and birds.

The Birdbath

Kathy

$275.00

Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 0.75
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): watercolor with pen and ink on watercolor paper
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: I want to participate in the Dreamscape theme because I love surrealism, and wanted to come up with a different kind of bird bath to go with the theme.

Living Time Forward and Backward

Living Time Forward and Backward

Ellen Hosafros

$369.00

Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil on canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The majority of my paintings embrace surrealism. I am inspired by female surrealist painters including Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. I draw upon my dreams and spiritual concepts including karma, reincarnation and a universal divine force when considering topics and symbols for my paintings.

Kevin Hears the Mother Ship

Kevin Hears the Mother Ship

Ellen Hosafros

$299.00

Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil on canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: I enjoy creating surrealistic oil paintings and using cartoon-like creatures to add a surprising twist. Most of my ideas come to me in dream, and I often embed symbols that appear to me when asleep. Also, I really love cats.

Fragmented Beauty

Fragmented Beauty

David Kellner

$2,200.00

Dimensions: 40 x 19 x 16
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Meta, Glass, acrylic and wax paint
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The glass flowers

Midsummer Dreaming

Midsummer Dreaming

Valarie Lacefield

$225.00

Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Mixed Media
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: I have had a most rare vision. I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was… The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (Bottom, Act 4 Scene 1) Shakespeare 'A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dream a little dream

Dream a little dream

Stephanie

$200.00

Dimensions: 20 x 10 x 0.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The inspiration behind it is the idea that we create our own realities.

Being

Katerina Lescouflair

$444.00

Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 4
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Epoxy resin, eggshell, silicone, permanent marker
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: I had a vision while driving that I needed to create this piece.

Jaws strikes again

Jaws strikes again

Brad Martin

$150.00

Dimensions: 3 x 12 x 12
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Mixed media
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: I am inspired by creating new original wooden art pieces !

Leaves of Support

Leaves of Support

Cori Matyas

$950.00

Dimensions: 32 x 26 x 30
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Steel, clay
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: Trees are strong and excellent providers. When I was facing a personal hardship, I began imagining what it would be like if a tree could actually hug someone. I used steel to represent strength, clay to represent connection to the earth, the height appropriate for a viewer to kneel or sit and interact with, and configurable side-by-side or back-to back because we need different types of support at different times.

Flight of the Mako (Over Saturated Memory From My Dreamlike Childhood)

Flight of the Mako (Over Saturated Memory From My Dreamlike Childhood)

Ryan Andrew Neumann

$700.00

Dimensions: 24 x 30 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic paint, spray paint, colored pencil
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The Mako shark is known to leap out of the water and take “flight”. What seems like a completely fabricated scene is actually a vibrant flash of reality so wild it seems unreal. A scene from the lucid dream that was my childhood. A shark in the sky chasing birds, two more circling bloody Bahamian waters, and all the while a red dive flag indicates there is someone in the water. In a dreamlike landscape the untamed yellow of the sun washes over everything I can recollect.

Game of Dreams

Dan O'Neill

$600.00

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: In your dreams, games can take on different challenges.

Dreamy Egret

Saul Reyes

$275.00

Dimensions: 22 x 28 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Photographic print
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The beauty of a white egret gliding gracefully may evoke in viewers thoughts and feelings of peace, faith, and wonder. I find joy in discovering and rediscovering Florida’s beauty and capturing that beauty in photographs. I hope the viewer may daydream and enjoy the beauty of nature.

End of the Trail

End of the Trail

Aka Draga

$800.00

Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Mixable oil paints
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: "The End of the trail" is my interpretation of our world today.

The Path Through Dali's Garden

The Path Through Dali's Garden

Ronda Richley

$795.00

Dimensions: 30 x 30 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic on gallery profile canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: If Van Gogh meets Dali in my surreal, imaginary world, imagine what a wonderful world it would be!

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