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Daydreamers & Other Nightmares

📆  July 11, 2025 📍 Community Gallery, First Floor 💰 Free open to ages: All

Community Gallery Exhibition
July 11th - August 27th, 2025

Opening Reception
July 11th from 5-8 PM

Gallery Hours after Opening
Wednesdays-Fridays 9am - 5pm
Saturdays 11am - 3pm

Daydreamers and Other Nightmares explores how artists use mythology and nostalgia to process trauma, explore identity, and imagine alternate futures. Across history, artists have drawn from myth and legend to reflect on human fears, desires, and power structures. From the Renaissance to Neoclassicism, Romanticism to Surrealism, and into the present, these recurring narratives offer both comfort and creative ground for reinvention.

In times of upheaval—plague, war, political unrest—artists have turned to the familiar. Myths provide symbolic frameworks that make sense of chaos, offering stability amid uncertainty. This exhibition continues that lineage, showing how contemporary artists, particularly millennials shaped by conflict, recession, and climate crisis, reinterpret historical and mythological stories to confront modern instability.

Rather than escape into the past, the works in Daydreamers and Other Nightmares dissect and subvert it. These pieces twist iconic narratives, exposing the darker sides of nostalgia while opening up space for new, more inclusive visions. Blending art history, myth, and queer identity, the artists reclaim old stories to reflect today’s complexities—and to offer hope.

This exhibition argues that mythology and nostalgia are not mere romanticism or retreat, but vital tools for resilience. By referencing shared cultural memory, the artists invite viewers into a familiar world reimagined—one where the past is a lens, not a limit.

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