Curation: Beautiful Bizarre Magazine | Art Direction: Musonium Gallery
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s 18th curated exhibition, Paracosmic Escape, is currently on view at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, CA, USA until 5 December. If you haven’t yet visited the gallery to see this amazing exhibition, please do make some time this week – it’s not to be missed! Of course, you can see the entire exhibition online, and take virtual tour. If you are interested in adding to your art collection do take a peek – the work is exceptional! You can contact Gallery Director Kim Larson at info@moderneden.com for sales enquiries.
Paracosmic Escape
Our thanks to all of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize sponsors, including exhibition partner Musonium Gallery‘s Art Director Keeley Gerard for contributing the Art Direction/theme conceptualization for this year’s exhibition.
‘Paracosmic Escape’ is an explorative group exhibition traversing mankind’s relative position within the physical world and accompaniment of the psychological realm, providing a private expanse of freedom from the external by way of looking internally towards oneself.
by Keeley Gerard (Art Director of Musonium Gallery)
Sheltered deep inside the hippocampus lives a complexity of infinite possibilities and opportunities. Somewhere we travel to remember the past or dream up our future. An inner solace that exists as an entryway to understand ourselves better – who we are and who we wish to be, as well as why we are the way we are and how we want to be. ‘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.
This is the 6th time that Beautiful Bizarre Magazine has worked with Modern Eden Gallery in this capacity, and we are so grateful to the Gallery Directors Kim Larson and Bradley Platz together with their team for their professionalism and hard work on behalf of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and all the artists involved.
Our deepest gratitude also goes to the 80+ artists from around the world who contributed such incredible work to this exhibition, including the Winners of the 2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. Thank you also to all of the artists, fans and collectors who attended the opening reception! You can see all of the photographs from the opening reception of Paracosmic Escape here.
Thank you, THANK YOU, a million thank yous to everyone involved in bringing this exhibition to life, including our amazing Beautiful Bizarre Magazine team. This has been another huge success, and we are incredibly grateful!
‘Paracosmic Escape’ 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.
“Childhood II” [Oil on canvas]
“Ode to a Nightingale” [Oil on canvas]
”Just Here to be Consumed” [Oil on masonite]
“Still, Life” [Original acrylic painting on wood panel]
“Amalthea” [Oil on panel]
‘Gloss’ [Oil on Linen]
“Inner Sound 102”, [Acrylic on board]
“Paracosmosis”, [Oil on Canvas]
“In Memoriam” [Ink, graphite, watercolor, acrylics, color pencils and gold leaf on heavyweight paper]
“Control is an Illusion” [Mixed media sculpture in wood shadowbox *details: epoxy and polymer clay, silk, acrylic paint, glass beads, wire, nails]
“How I Feel It Now” [Pen and ink, gouache, graphite on paper]
“The Epilogue” [Digital painting. Archival print on Cotton Rag]
“Wake” [Oil on canvas]
“Imagine” [Oil on canvas]
“Small Tombstone” [Mineral pigments, Acrylic paint, Indian ink, Gohun, Japanese paper mounted on wood panel]
“Reflection” [Oil on Linen]
“Identity Thief” [Oil on canvas wrapped panel]
“Mr. S Garden of Contemplation” [Acrylic on canvas]
“Study of Applied Mythology” [Watercolour and gouache on paper]
“Pluto in Aquarius” [Oil on canvas]
“Reverie” [Acrylic on wood panel]
“The Bee’s Knees” [3D Digital art. Giclée print on Lustre Photo Paper]
“Felicia in Chelsea” [Oil on canvas]
“The Forest That Time Forgot” [Acrylic on canvas]
“Knight Paper” [Digital photograph, Archival print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta paper]
“Paracosmic Escape” [Hand embroidery on velvet, natural and faux pearls, cameos of antique needlepoint, mixed media]
“Chrono Umbra” [Kesambi wood, copper and ceramic]
“Landline from the Salt Marsh Harvest Mice” [Cast bronze, patina, lacquer]
“Relic of Hidden Desire” [Silk Organza, Cotton thread, Fabric stiffener, Wood, Paint, Nails]
“Mask” [Bronze]
“Sidhe” [Mixed media, including Japanese air-dry clay, mulberry paper, wood, acrylics]
“Teatime” [Clay, wire, gouache, acrylic, epoxy, wood]
“Shrinking” [Ceramic, acrylic]
“Stella Sublima” [Mixed media sculpture on plastic bottle]
“Martine dans l’espace” [Paper, wire, glass eyes & glass pearls mounted on wooden base]
“Binny. (Jack out the box)” [Fabric, plastic, mixed media]
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