A Bit of Surrealism
May 11 - June 15, 2024
Gallery Reception: Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 5 - 7 PM
A Bit of Surrealism
May 11 – June 15, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 2024, 5-7 PM
For Immediate Release, Dallas, Texas
PDNB Gallery is celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Surrealism with a small exhibition of works from the gallery collection. Artists included in the exhibition:
Angus McBean (1904 – 1990, British) was known for his theater portraits from the British stage including the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He often incorporated surrealism in his portraiture. He was a pioneer of surrealist photography working with photo montage and multiple exposures. The Harvard Library holds his archive in their extensive Theatre Collection.
Alfred Gescheidt (1926 – 2012, American) was a street photographer, often experimenting in photo collage. The images were humorous influenced by surrealism. One of the picture editors at The New York Times, John Durniak, called him the Charlie Chaplin of the camera.
PDNB artist, Chema Madoz (b. 1958, Madrid, Spain) has been heavily influenced by the Surrealists, particularly Magritte. He combines objects in the studio effortlessly to create new objects with new meaning. When he first started his career in art, post banking career, he captured images outdoors combining shadows, figures, water, stones and other natural elements. His work has been exhibited around the world and is in the permanent collections of many museums including the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Fine Arts Museum in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He has had three solo exhibitions at PDNB Gallery.
Another gallery artist, Jeffrey Silverthorne, is featured in this exhibition with some rare, unique photo collages. Jeffrey is known for his intense morgue work photographs in the 1970’s. He has been exhibited at PDNB since the early 2000’s. Also included is a work by Vilem Kriz, from Czechoslovakia (1921 – 1994). He immigrated to the United States and taught photography at California College of Art and Crafts in Oakland. He studies with the great modernist artists including Jaromir Funke, Josef Ehm and Frantisek Drtikol in Prague.
For exhibition information: missy@pdnbgallery.com
For Press images: allison@pdnbgallery.com
