Dunedin Fine Arts Center unveils a new batch of exhibitions this weekend, each offering its own distinctive and intriguing visual investigations of dreams — those that come from both the head and the heart.
Among the fantastic imaginings featured in The Impossible Dream are painter/woodworker Holly Lane's ornately carved and painted three-dimensional scenes, the quirky ceramic characters of SimonBoses, a floating, mixed-media installation by Jamey Grimes, Maggie Taylor's vividly surreal, digitally-manipulatedphotographic illustrations, and ethereal "light drawings" of UK-based artist SuzanneRedstone. In addition, DFAC presents the results of RichardKamler's "Seeing Peace" project, a series of works created by artists worldwide as an answer to the United Nations' "Impossible Dream" of attaining peace via art.
Also opening this weekend is Dreams: Untitled, a collaborative "dream environment" created by sculptor/installation artist Maria Saraceno and multi-college adjunct art professor/multi-discipline artist Yoko Nogami.
Croatian-born Daniel Mrgan offers up a series of his trademark narrative woodburnings in Pulling Strings, Pulling Teeth, Pinellas County elementary school students present descriptions and illustrations of their dreams in Crazy Logic: Kids Draw Their Dreams, and the 2008-09 hands-on installation at the David L. Mason Children's Art Museum — located within the center — is Dreamscapes: Windows to Other Worlds, which explores the dream realm as imagined by artists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte.
All five exhibits open with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Fri., Sept. 12 ($5 general, free for DFAC members). Also on DFAC's weekend calendar is the indoor-outdoor Kid's Art Fest 2008, a kid-centric reception of sorts that features inflatables, games, food, music and take-home art activities from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat., Sept. 13 ($3 suggested donation).
The Impossible Dream, through Dec. 24, Dreams: Untitled, Pulling Strings and Crazy Logic, through Oct. 19, and Dreamscapes, through Aug. 1, 2009, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat., 1-4 p.m. Sun., 1143 Michigan Blvd., Dunedin, free admission, 727-298-3322, dfac.org.
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2008.
