Calling all our fellow pop surrealist lovers! The highly-anticipated solo exhibition by Brandi Milne, Now, and Forevermore, is currently on show at Corey Helford Gallery – yet this isn’t just a selection of her newest works. Four years in the making, Brandi’s solo exhibition invites us into her own “sacred space” from which to connect with the artist like never before. Now, and Forevermore, delves deeper into the rawest depths of Brandi’s soul revealing the artist’s most vulnerable work to date. While keeping her visually enchanting, pop surrealist aesthetic, Brandi’s exhibition at Corey Helford Gallery unveils a series of complex emotions wrapped in bittersweet moments. “Shaped by grief, tenderness, and the enduring struggle to see light through the darkness, this show allows her artwork to become a safe haven by holding these deeply personal moments.” Shares Sherri Trahan, Director and Curator at Corey Helford Gallery.
“Now, and Forevermore is an invitation to venture a little deeper with me into some of life’s challenging undercurrents. See beyond the sweet veneer of my work into the ever-vibrant process of being fully human. Witness hope and despair, love and loss, and ultimate personal triumph.”
Read ahead to learn more about Brandi’s most heartfelt series of works to date – now on show at Corey Helford Gallery.
Brandi Milne
Now, and Forevermore
Dates: May 16 – June 20, 2026
COREY HELFORD GALLERY
Main Gallery: 571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033
Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
(310) 287-2340
For more information please email sherri@coreyhelfordgallery.com
Brandi Milne Now, and Forevermore
From press release:
With Now, and Forevermore, Milne invites viewers into what she describes as a “sacred space” – a place where art becomes both refuge and revelation. Her work has long balanced dualities: sweetness and sorrow, innocence and unease, nostalgia and truth. Here, that balance deepens into something more exposed. Beneath the luminous palettes and whimsical characters lies a raw, unfiltered emotional landscape.
“Art is a sacred space where I go to hear my heart sing,” Brandi shares. “It is how I hold and behold my humanity… and how I give voice to the parts of me that struggle to be fully seen and heard.”
Often recognized for her “candy-coated” aesthetic, Milne subverts expectations by embedding complex emotional narratives within deceptively playful imagery. Her work draws from a rich visual language shaped by a childhood steeped in Disney animation, vintage holiday iconography, nursery rhymes, and confectionary colour palettes. Yet, what initially appears sweet quickly reveals an undercurrent of melancholy, longing, and psychological depth – an interplay that has become her signature style.
In this latest exhibition, that tension feels heightened and deeply personal. The figures that inhabit Milne’s world – wide-eyed, delicate, and quietly expressive – act as emotional surrogates, carrying themes of heartbreak, memory, thoughts of self-harm, and resilience. There is a palpable sense of vulnerability throughout the collection, as if each piece is both a confession and a form of catharsis. One pivotal piece, Sacred Heart [below] illustrates the moment someone comes into contact with their own sacredness and their own beautiful and tender sacred heart. Other pivotal pieces include Ghost, [above] and Crying for the Death of Your Heart (portrait of the artist after death) [below].
With Now, and Forevermore, the artist extends a quiet but powerful invitation: to witness, to empathize, and to find beauty within even the most fragile parts of ourselves.
About Brandi Milne
Brandi Milne is an American painter, illustrator and storyteller, and one of the leading voices in American Pop Surrealism.
Her path as an artist has always been rooted in storytelling. Born and raised in Anaheim, California, she discovered early on that drawing offered a language for expressing what words could not. Dedicated, her style of art developed over the years as drawing characters and pulling visual stories from her imagination became a sincere language with which she could communicate. Her imaginative world beams with vibrancy inspired by a childhood of Disney Classic Cartoons, children’s fables, nursery rhymes, vintage Christmas & Halloween iconography and CANDY, which undeniably lends to her sugary aesthetic.
Over time, Brandi’s characters evolved into vessels for deeply human experiences, allowing her to explore identity, emotion, and the complexities of inner life through a distinctly imaginative lens. Sweet at a glance, Milne masterfully weaves depth into the work exposing and featuring the raw underbelly of life at the core.
“I offer this in a time of overwhelming disconnection in the world, and hope that we can reconnect with the pulse of what makes us human through the power of art and creativity – even if just for a moment.”
– Brandi Milne
Open to the public and free to attend, Now, and Forevermore is on show in the Main Gallery, alongside automotive artist Dave Shuten, street artist Fabez and Argentinean born skateboard culturalist Ramiro Davaro-Comas, in Gallery 2. Additionally, an exhibition by solo from pop surrealist artist Andrea Guzzetta (titled Oasis) is on show in Gallery 3. The shows will be on view at CHG through June 20th.
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About Corey Helford Gallery
Established in 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer/creator Bruce Helford (The Conners, Lopez vs. Lopez, Anger Management, The Drew Carey Show, and George Lopez), Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) has since evolved into one of the premier galleries of New Contemporary art. Its goal as an institution is to support the growth of artists, from the young and emerging to the well-known and internationally established. CHG represents a diverse collection of international artists, primarily influenced by today’s pop culture and collectively encompassing style genres such as New Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti, and Street Art.
