The Paracosmic Escape exhibition is Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s 18th international curated exhibition, and our 6th in partnership with prestigious San Francisco gallery Modern Eden Gallery. This exhibition brings together over 80 incredible local American and international artists, including the Winners of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. Each artist explores the Paracosmic Escape theme through the lens of their unique lived experience and artistic styles. While at the same time bringing the pages of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine to life!
Our thanks to 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize sponsor and exhibition partner Musonium Gallery‘s Founder and Art Director Keeley Gerard for contributing the Art Direction/theme conceptualization for this year’s exhibition. Keeley shares his thoughts about the Paracosmic Escape theme below.
Paracosmic Escape is an explorative group exhibition traversing mankind’s relative position within the physical world and his accompaniment of the psychological realm, providing a private expanse of freedom from the external by way of looking internally towards oneself. Being so intimately in touch with facets of our inner selves is not only paramount for how people wish to present themself to the world but also the creation of the world we imagine for ourselves. Because memories serve as the foundation for imagination, it is unsurprising memories are generated of our own mental simulations. A
by Keeley Gerard (Founder & Art Director of Musonium Gallery)
cohabitation that influences the decisions we make in the real world and gives way for the possibility to birth our very own subconscious alternate realities of ideality.
“We use imagination to form new ideas from information we already know, to make sense of reality and our perception thereof it and conversely the creation of new universes parallel to our own. Where seismic explosions of microcosmic brainstorms transport us to fictional reflections of our true selves, bound by rules of our own making.” Keeley shares. “To slip back into a child-like imagination, finding peace with our past, comfort in the present, and hope for the future in the safeguard of our own mind. To create our very own paracosmic escape.
“As the title suggests, Paracosmic Escape explores themes of retrospection, introspection, and complex relationships with the real world, where internal gateways offer a place of sanctuary to heal from and provide explanation to the effects of reality.”
Paracosmic Escape will also showcase the work of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024 winners, in each of the five Award categories: RAYMAR Traditional Art Award (1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize Winners); Photography Award (1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize Winners); Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award (1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize Winners); Digital Art Award (1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize Winners) and 33PA Emerging Artist Award (1st and 2nd Prize Winners).
Paracosmic Escape Exhibition
The opening reception at Modern Eden Gallery will be open to the public, and all are welcome!
Of course, Modern Eden Gallery will have all the work up online after the opening so you can peruse the exhibition at your leisure. Please do email Modern Eden Galley Director Kim Larson so you can be added to the Collectors Preview if you are considering purchasing any of the works. Remember, the holiday season is just around the corner. What better gift could you give your loved ones or yourself, than the gift of original art!
The gallery will also be sharing a video walk-through of the exhibition for those that are unable to attend in person; stay tuned for more details.
Paracosmic Escape
International group exhibition curated by: Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
Art Direction/Theme Conceptualization by: Musonium Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition Dates: November 9 – December 5, 2024
Modern Eden Gallery
Modern Eden Gallery | 1100 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA. United States | +1 415 956 3303
To receive the Collectors Preview please email Kim at info@moderneden.com
Exhibiting Artists
Alexandra Lukaschewitz, Alexandra Manukyan, Andi Soto, Andie Taylor, Annie Montgomerie, Brian Haberlin, Brian Mashburn, Calvin Ma, Camilla d’Errico, César Orrico [1st prize winner Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Crystal Morey, Dewi Plass, Diego Orlando [2nd prize winner Photography Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Ellen Jewett, Erika Sanada, Forest Rogers, Georgios Georgolios, Haejin Yoo [2nd prize winner RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Hannah Flowers, Howard Lyon, Ito Chieko, J Louis, Jana Brike, Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Jason Mowry, Jessica Dalva, Jesús Aguado, Jon Ching [3rd prize winner RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Juli About, Juliet Schreckinger, Katie Gamb, Kevin Peterson, Kim Slate, Kisung Koh, Kristin Kwan, Kseniia Boko, Larysa Bernhardt, Laura Colors, Lavely Miller, Lesley Thiel, Lindsey Carr, Lisa Lach-Nielsen, Lo Chan Peng [Grand prize winner, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2023], Lou Benesch, Lucia Heffernan, Luke Hillestad, Marc le Rest, Mark Jeffrey R. Santos, Mary Syring, Mothmeister [1st prize winner Photography Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Nadine Tralala [1st prize winner 33PA Emerging Artist Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Naoto Hattori, Nicole Evans, Noah Norrid, Olga Esther, Ornélie [2nd Prize winner Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Orphans Inc, Raul Guerra, Richard Ahnert, Richard A. Williams, Rima Day, Ross Takahashi [2nd prize winner 33PA Emerging Artist Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Roxy Peroxyde, Scott Listfield, Shannon Taylor, Siana Park [3rd prize winner Digital Art Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Sooj Mitton, Spencer Hansen [3rd Prize winner Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Stasia Schmidt [3rd prize winner Photography Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Stephanie Kilgast, Stephanie Rew, Tania Rivilis, Tina Spratt, Tina Yu, Tom Bagshaw, Tristan Elwell [1st prize winner Digital Art Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Ulyana Turchenko, Vasilisa Romanenko, Victor Wang [1st prize winner RAYMAR Traditional Art Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024], Vincent Giarrano, VZEWL [2nd prize winner Digital Art Award, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2024] and Yousuke Kawashima.
We are now delighted to reveal below some of the 82 works, which will be on view at Modern Eden Gallery from 9 November. Enjoy!
‘The Paracosmist’s Pallet’ [Oil on linen panel]
”Jorunna Joy Ride’ [Water soluble oil paint on birch wood board]
‘Crysalis’ [Oil on linen]
‘Even When Passing Through’ [Oil on canvas]
‘Journey through Knowledge’ [Acrylic on canvas]
‘Between Worlds’ [Pastel]
‘Pathfinder’ [One off hand embellished digital painting on cotton rag stock, mounted on board, varnished and framed]
‘Payback Time, Bloody Berlin Butcher’ [Digital Photography, Canon EOS R5]
‘Rhodopis’ [Oil on Linen]
‘Paracosmic’ [Acrylic on paper on canvas]
‘Sucrerie D’Hiver’ [Oil on canvas]
‘Woman in the Bath VI’ [Acrylic and spray paint on raw linen. Handmade pine wood frame]
‘Spinal Tap’ [Oil on wood]
‘Harvest’ [Aluminium panel]
‘Reflections in Blue’ [Oil on Belgian Linen]
‘Elvis Presley’ [Oil on canvas]
‘The Last Tower’ [Oil on canvas]
‘Echoes of the Ancients’ [Oil on linen]
‘Out of Line’ [Oil on canvas]
‘It Was Not Just A Dream’ [Acrylic on panel]
‘I Was Stone’ [Oil on panel]
‘The Creative’ [Acrylic on panel]
‘Hangmaker’ [Colour pencils and watercolours on watercolour paper]
‘The Lepidopteran’s Metamorphosis’ [Acrylic on board]
‘Fallen Angel’ [Oil on canvas]
‘Vision of Hypnos’ [Watercolour, colour pencil, Gauche on Arches 300lb, Hot press, watercolour paper]
‘Inversion’ [One-of-a-kind archival canvas print, hand signed in iridescent gold]
‘The Golden Witch’ [Oil on linen]
‘Fabric of Time’ [Watercolour with dorland’s wax surface]
‘Chaos Play Love’ [Oil on canvas]
‘Reincarnation’ [Oil on panel]
‘A toad will always be a toad’ [Oil on panel]
‘Carousel’ [Gouche, watercolour, coloured pencil]
‘Paracosmic Wind’ [Oil on panel]
‘GAIA’ [Oil on canvas]
‘Under a Southern Sky’ [Oil, Egg tempera and 24ct Gold leaf]
‘Woman in White’ [Oil on panel]
‘Moonlit Lullabies’ [Ink and graphite on Arches paper, mounted to panel]
‘Rising Waters, Boiling Seas: Bush Elephant and Starfish Anecdote’ [Hand sculpted, high-fire porcelain]
‘I Sow You’ [Molded, modeled, engraved, stamped porcelain, gold, cotton thread, copper wire]
‘Royal Widow’ [Polymer clay, fabrics, lace, embroidery, acrylic paint]
‘Follow The Wind’ [Epoxy clay, acrylic paint, ribbons]
‘Pandora’s Box’ [Hand cut watercolor diorama inside antique Erhard & Sohne nouveau jewelry box]
