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

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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.

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Le Jardin
Le Jardin
Nancy Wright
$150.00


Dimensions: 22 x 18 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Watercolor
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: Just learning to let go and let the piece take control. My attempt to become more of the abstract world.
Bird Brain
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.
Concrete Desert
Concrete Desert
Aaron Thomas
$1,200.00


Dimensions: 40 x 40 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylics and chalk on professional canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: I love our local theater and downtown Ocala. I've imagined our city as a crazy deserte/ed town, but with cold beers!
Gulf Stream Dreams
Gulf Stream Dreams
Cindy Vener
$450.00


Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 1
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): acrylic
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: An intuitive abstract inspired by shapes and colors in the Florida landscape.
Purple Haze
Purple Haze
Dan O'Neill
$600.00


Dimensions: 20 x 16 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?: Some people float through life.
Game of Dreams
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.
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 !
Enchanted Cat
Enchanted Cat
M Kathleen Warren
$275.00


Dimensions: 12 x 18 x 1.5
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): photography
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: Cats seem to hold secrets, and my resident feline guards the secrets of her former life. I'm fascinated with her eyes, so my attention turned to her eyes and then to her multi-faceted way of living in her world. A result of playing with new camera equipment, this image reveals the essence of her cat-ness.
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.
VIRTUE OF INIQUITY
VIRTUE OF INIQUITY
Estelle Cress
$250.00


Dimensions: 24 x 36 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?: Mysteries of Halloween. I was always fascinated with the tradition. Living in Los Angeles has given me the opportunity to visit a lot of Halloween parades.
Nautical Plummage
Nautical Plummage
Jessica Carter
$2,500.00


Dimensions: 50 x 26 x 3
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Cradled wooden panel hand crafted, mixed media collage, using hand painted found papers.
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: I love feathers. This piece is inspired by the wonderful world you can create in a sea of feathers.
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.
Golden Moon
Golden Moon
Linda DeRosa
$175.00


Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 3
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Watercolor Ground, Acrylic, Inks, Watercolor.
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: Golden Moon has a positive spiritual meaning...be it peace, optimism, balance and prosperity. I hoped to convey a sense of peacefulness and calm for the viewer.
A Blank Piece of Paper
A Blank Piece of Paper
Lynne Rothert
$225.00


Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 0.75
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Graphite pencil
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The inspiration for this piece was when an Art teacher instructed a class I was attending to get a blank piece of paper and do a pencil drawing. The piece I am submitting is the drawing I did to complete the assignment.
Horizon on Fire
Horizon on Fire
Leslie Hammond
$150.00


Dimensions: 8 x 11
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): photography
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: captured during a brief moment of subject and situation
Lattice Series - South Seas Tattooed Lady
Lattice Series - South Seas Tattooed Lady
Jeffrey Selker
$5,500.00


Dimensions: 48 x 48 x 2
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Acrylic on Canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: Exploring my resent fascination with tattoos, I wanted to do something exotic. Exploring the lattice pattern I've been playing around with, this one has three views of the same image, COLOR, representing her day to day life, how everyone sees her, B&W, is how things really are, bills, relationships, etc... and through ROSE COLORED GLASSES, her dream world...
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
“Flight of the First Flamingo”
“Flight of the First Flamingo”
Justin Alsedek
$7,500.00


Dimensions: 36 x 36 x 3
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil paint on Canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: Flamingos are symbolic of rebirth, so why not depict one shedding its ego and being reborn.
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.
“Uncertainty’s Rainbow”
“Uncertainty’s Rainbow”
Justin Alsedek
$7,000.00


Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 2
What is the MEDIUM of the piece? (ie: acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, clay sculpture, etc.): Oil paint on canvas
What is the inspiration behind your piece?: The miracle and uncertainty of life.

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