Portal Ximena Rendón daring the viewer to enter

daring the viewer to enter her world with no guarantee of it being a safe or comfortable place

The trickery and visual wit in his work act as a reminder that we must be vigilantly cautious in our obsessive seeking of objective truth and concrete understanding because there still are elements of magic left for us in this world to discover

are naturally drawn to the unorthodox

Throughout her artistic journey

Leib explores these concepts through iconic and symbolic imagery featuring a fabulous cast of astronauts and Bonobo apes

Portal Ximena Rendón daring the viewer to enterDetails About Oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. 2024 Vanessa Powers is a figurative oil painter working in the new surrealist style. She exhibits her work both nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, and the juried exhibition Surreal Salon at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana. Her work was recently installed in large scale ad space in a Queens subway station in