The world of Surrealism has lost one of its most outstanding figures. Leonora Carrington, perhaps the most senior of the original Surrealist artists, has died at 94, in Mexico. She was known for haunting, and dreamlike works focusing on strange ritual-like scenes with birds, cats, unicorn-like creatures and other animals not necessarily of this world.
Carrington created works that charged Surrealism with the occult and mystical explorations of femininity. In a life marked by periods of extreme excitement and danger, she eloped with Max Ernst, fled the Nazis, escaped from a Spanish psychiatric hospital and later settled in Mexico, where she built a reputation as one of the most original and visionary of British artists and writer of the 20th century. Her associates included Picasso and Bunuel ("uncouth Spaniards") Peret, Miro, Breton, Arp, Dali, Belmer, Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, and many others.
Oddly enough, in her native Britain she was comparatively neglected – last year saw the first major exhibition of her work there for 20 years – despite her leading role among the many female exponents of surrealism. Carrington rejected the notion of being anyone’s muse (“all that means is that you’re someone else’s object”) and was quick to snap if anyone took her for granted. When Joan Miro gave her money to get him some cigarettes, she told him to “bloody well” get them himself.
Carrington was not simply a painter, but created tapestries, collages and sculptures. As a leading surrealist author, she created many classic tales, as well as poems and articles.
Though born in Lancashire, England, on April 6, 1917, her last longtime home and inspiration was Mexico, with its Aztec and Mayan history and its delirious cult of the dead. Once dubbed a "surrealist country" by Andre Breton, Mexico was a heartland for major women Surrealists besides Carrington, such as Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, and the contemporary Susana Wald.
Though she lived for spells in New York, and later in Chicago, where together with Penelope and Franklin she conceived the idea for a “Surrealist survival kit," she eventually returned to Mexico for the rest of her life.
-- Maurice Esworthy III
Surrealism in 2012:
Toward the World of the Fifth Sun
January 6 - February 19, 2012
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
201 Washington Street
Reading, Pennsylvania
USA
Artists Participating:
(listing in progress)
Gale Ahrens (United States) is a scholar, writer and activist in Chicago. A member of the surrealist group there, she has published a book on Lucy Parsons.
John Andersson (Sweden) painter with a wryly humorous touch active with Surrealistgruppen in Stockholm. He is co-creator, with Niklas Nenzén, of the surrealist comic book series "Diabolik."
Lawrence von Barann (United States) Mainstay surrealist artist and promulgator since 1950s, first in New York and then in Central Pennsylvania. Participated in World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago in 1976.
Karol Baron (Czech Republic) was a surrealist painter and graphic artist, associated with the Czech Surrealist Group and the journal Analogon. He was strongly identified with the city of his birth, Bratislava. Baron died in 2006.
Jen Besemer (United States) Chicago-based poet and artist. In the nineties she exhibited paintings and distributed her poetry in projects of the Chicago Surrealist Group at the Heartland Cafe Gallery. Currently works in an automatic and randomizing vein relying on the implicit hints within materials to control artistic choices.
Robert Bissett (United States) Painter, native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, known for colorful, figurative-expressionist works of a distinctively humourous character, influenced by Surrealism and popular culture.
Amy Boemig (United States) great lover of animals, fables and cryptozoology; painter, sculptor, stone carver.
Hilary Booth (Australia) One of the early members of Surrealist Group in South Australia, through art, poetry and activism, Booth later went on to a career in mathematical physics. After her death of cancer at age 45, a scholarship was created in her name by the National University of Australia.
Les Boules (Canada, United States) a surrealist art collective devoted to annonymous creation, centered in Montreal.
Daniel Boyer (United States) prolific surrealist artist, creating inspired automatic works in every conceivable medium, exhibited worldwide since the 1980's, published poetry in the volume "The Octopus Frets."
Ronnie Burk (United States) was a San Francisco surrealist and dissident Aids activist associated with Act Up. Author of several volumes of poetry, Burk was also a visual artist of note and a friend of the Chicago Surrealist Group. He died in 2003.
James Burns (United States) is a long-time practitioner of the surrealist technique of decalcomania. He has been a participant of CAPA since 1994 in Amsterdam. He has organized exhibitions of Collective Automatic Painting in Amsterdam, Los Angeles ,and Seattle.
CAPA - Collective Automatic Painting Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Miguel de Carvalho (Portugal) librarian, poet, collage & object maker, founder and publisher of DEBOUT SUR L'OUF surrealist editions and founder of the collective automatism group CABO MONDEGO SECTION OF OF PORTUGUESE SURREALISM (CMSPS). Directed in Portugal three huge surrealist exhibitions: "Reverso do Olhar", "A voz dos espelhos" and Illuninações Descontinuas. Included in the final Phases group exhibition in Chile in 2005.
Jean - Claude Charbonel (France) is a French surrealist artist and activist based in the Normandy region. He has created a unique mythology and visionary painting technique to portray the poetic world of the "Armorigénes."
Barry Cohen (United States) a painter in his youth, member of the psychological expressionist school of Li Hidley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He went on to study art therapy and became one of the world's leading authorities in this field, in which he has taught and written for decades.
Neil Coombs (United Kingdom) creates surrealist collage and photomontage, as well as editing the anarchist periodical "Patricide."
Laura Corsiglia (United States) is an artist well known and exhibited throughout the surrealist world. Born in B. C., Canada, and raised in the first nations community there, she is also active in environmentalism and bird rescue.
Paul Cowdell (United Kingdom) photographer, member of SLAG (Surrealist London Action Group.)
Artur do Crozeiro - Seixas (Portugal) was one of the founders of the Portugal Surrealist Group in 1948, taking part in numerous exhibitions and activities there and throughout the world. Now in his eighties, he contributed drawings for Franklin Rosemont's theoretical tour de force, Open Entrance to the Shut Palace of Wrong Numbers.
Dennis Cunningham (United States) is a noted civil and human rights attorney. A friend of the surrealist movement, he is also a sculptor in metals.
Jean Jacques Dauben (United States) emerged as an intensely surrealist painter in Ohio in the 1970's. Briefly a member of the Chicago Surrealist Group he participated in the World Surrealist Exhibition (1976) and other projects. He remains an artist with a bold gift of imagination in the surrealist tradition.
Re Desarbres (United States, France) Painter and ceramic artist. Her Four Winds Gallery has shown many surrealist, expressionist, brut and abstract works in Central Pennsylvania. Signatory of reissued "A la niche les glapissuers de dieu!"
Guy Ducornet (France) Surrealist painter and author, participant in group of Paris; important defender of the movement against the bad scholarship and bad faith of North American academics.
Rikki Ducornet (United States) Novelist, poet, painter. Active, prolific, a highpoint of the imagination in our time.
John Duda (United States) is a prograssive scholar, writer and activist. A member of Red Emma's Collective, he has worked with Kate Khatib to organize a free school in Baltimore.
Dick Elliot (United States) was arguably the first (1950's) widely known abstract artist in central Pennsylvania, paving the way for later developments in expressionist and surrealist tendencies.
Merl Fluin (United Kingdom) is a member of SLAG (Surrealist London Action Group.)
Mattias Forshage (Sweden) Theoretician, painter, poet, and militant, long prominent in the Surrealist Group in Stockholm. In his professional life, he holds a doctorate in entemology and is connected with the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Kathleen Fox (United Kingdom) Surrealist artist in unusual media; South Africa, Later London.
Jorge Herrera Fuentealba (Netherlands) is a painter, visual poetry, member of CAP; different surrealist exhibitions in Czech Republic in 2001, 2006, 2008; 'El Umbral Secreto' Santiago de Chile 2009; Encuentro international de la cultura surrealista, Valparaiso, Cile 2010, Germany and the Netherlands. He is published regularly by Hybriden Verlag, Berlin Germany.
Beth Garon (United States) Writer on blues, painter, longtime member of Surrealist Movement in the United States and the Chicago group. Married to blues historian and critic Paul Garon.
Paul Garon (United States) is a ground-breaking writer on blues and surrealism. Known for biographies of Peetie Wheatstraw and Memphis Minnie and other works, he is a co-founding member of the Chicago surrealist group.
Amirah Gazel (Costa Rica) Formerly of Belgium, now living in Costa Rica, where she operates Agoart together with Miguel Lohé. Recently took part in surrealist exhibitions in Portugal and Chile.
Luis Garcia - Abrines (Spain) Generally known as a distinguished Romance Languages philologist, Garcia - Abrines' career is interwoven with surrealism through his work on Spanish surrealist collage, his meeting with Luis Bunuel in Mexico in 1951, and their mutual connection with certain places in Spain. He presented a one of his own callages to Franklin and Penelope Rosemont in 1993.
Jesse Gentes (Canada) is a surrealist artist and activist engaged with grass roots struggles in Western Canada.
Guy Girard (France) is a surrealist painter and poet long associated with the international movement as a member of the group of Paris. He has been represented in many exhibitions and his writings have appeared in the publications of numerous groups.
Hervé Girardin (France) is a contemporary surrealist writer and artist
Eugenio Granell (Spain) was one of the most brilliant of the surrealist artists from Spain. As a militiaman in the civil war there, he fought again the tide of fascism in the 1930's before going into exile and joining the group around Andre Breton in Paris. In the 1940's he emigrated first to the West Indies and then to the United States where he eventually became editor of "España Libre". His work was well represented in the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago in 1976. He died in 2001.
Robert Green (United States) Sculptor, painter and surrealist activist associated with the Chicago Surrealist Group. Early comrade of Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, instrumental in creating Gallery Bugs Bunny and the World Surrealist Exhibition of 1976.
Morris L. Greene (United States)
Maurice Greenia (United States) is an outsider street artist with a surrealist methodology and outlook, close to a living legend in Detroit counter-cultural circles.
Janice Hathaway (United States) Artist and teacher in mainland U. S and Hawaii. Creator of surrealist collage, long active with the Surrealist Movement in the United States.
Li Hidley (United States) figurative painter born in Troy, N .Y., studied art in New York City and Mexico. In the 1960s Hidley brought a refreshing, psychoanalytically-wired expressionism to Central Pennsylvania, inspiring and teaching many younger artists such as Bob Bissett, David Marcus, Brian Rogers and others. Hidley died in 2003.
Marianne van Hirtum (Belgium) Quintessentially surrealist artist and poet who joined the Paris group in 1959 and took part in many exhibitions and publications until her death in 1988. Her work in the World Surrealist Exhibition (Chicago, 1976) was praised at the time by famed jazz pianist Cecil Taylor.
T. T. Hosey (United States) is a painter and curator of long standing in Central Pennsylvania with a subtle metaphysical take on the inner (surreal) model.
Patrick Hourihan (United Kingdom) artist, member of SLAG (Surrealist London Action Group.)
Jose Herrera Huerta (Chile) is a painter in the surrealist circles in Santiago, Chile. Andean born, his encounter with the ideas of Andre Breton led him to a way to paint automatically despite an eye affliction.
Tatsuo Ikeda (Japan) turned eighty years old this year on the anniversary of the end of WWII. A major artist from Japan with a surrealist bent, he participated in the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago (1976.)
Magdalena Issacson (Chile) is an artist participating in the Xaleshem Group. She participated in the surrealist exhibitions in Chile in 2009 and 2010. She has developed a unique mixed media technique featuring plain cloth and similar materials.
Corinna Jablonski (United States) creates surreal biomorphic fantasy creatures in cast glass, paint and pen. Known for originating fully articulated glass marionettes.
John Jablonski (United States) restores vintage Juke Boxes in San Francisco. Early influenced by Balthus, he makes digital collages reflecting the hard-edged, and frequently hard-boiled, tradition of surrealist painting of the urban wasteland.
Joseph Jablonski (United States) Poet, collagist, photographer, theorist. Longtime member of surrealist movement.
Bruno Jacobs (Sweden, Belgium) Surrealist theoretician, organizer and militant in European surrealist circles.
Abdul Kader El Janaby (Iraq) was a member of the Arab Surrealist Group in Exile, now lives in Paris as a writer and intellectual.
Alex Januário (Brazil) is a surrealist artist of São Paulo known for his pure interpretation of collage technique.
Ted Joans (United States) was a seminal poet in the rise of the Beat Generation and the Surrealist Movement in the United States. A friend of Andre Breton and many other Surrealists of France, Europe and South America, he upheld a unique position as an international black voice of the freest continuity of poetry and jazz right up until his death in 2003.
Gerome Kamrowski (United States) met and collaborated with Andre Breton and other surrealist exiles from WW2 in New York in the 1940s. Praised by Breton as the most advanced U.S. painter of that time. A major participant in the World Surrealist Exhibition (Chicago, 1976), he died in 2004.
Kate Khatib (United States) cultural, social and political activist associated with Chicago Surrealist Group, principal animator of Red Emma's collective and bookstore-cafe in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jorge Kleiman (Argentina) Painter, architect and theoretician, Born in Argentina, has lived there and in Spain, exhibiting worldwide and teaching both in universities and privately.
Freddy Flores Knistoff (Netherlands) was the founder of Collective Automatic Painting in Amsterdam in 1991. He has participated in many exhibitions of the Phases Movement and insternational Surrealism since 1989, in Paris, Hannover, Bretagne, Poznan, Bochum, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Arras, Los Angeles, Santiago de Chile, etc.
Djordje Kostic´ (Serbia) was one of the founders of the Belgrade Surrealist Group, an artist and historian of the group. He was distinguished by scientific work in the fields of linguistics and statistical research. He died in 1995.
Don Lacoss (United States) was a surrealist historian, teacher and activist, lately in Wisconsin. His death at age 45 in early 2011, just as the Arab world exploded in revolt, deprived the world of the insights of this singular student of Surrealism in the Middle East.
Anais LaRue (Canada) currrently lives on Salt Spring Island, B. C. The artist-activist is renowned for her works on paper, illustrations and prints with a surrealist and anti-miserabalist twist of imagination.
Sergio Lima (Brazil) is a renowned surrealist poet and artist of the Sáo Paulo Group, known for poems and collages with an erotic emphasis.
Rik Lina (Netherlands) Surrealist painter of Amsterdam with ties to Cabo Mondego Section of Portuguese group. Strong advocate of collective automatism.
Gina Litherland (United States) Gifted painter of dreams and wonders in the tradition of Carrington and Varos. Her smallest work is worth its weight in rainbows.
Miguel Lohlé (Belgium, Costa Rica) Painter and sculptor, was born in Argentina, worked for several years in Belgium in conjunction with Amirah Gazel in the Agorart community art project.
David London (United States) performing magician with a Surrealist tilt toward humor, currently active on the West Coast.
Mary Low (United Kingdom, Cuba, United States) Surrealist poet and artist born in England of Australian parents. Married to Cuban revolutionary poet Juan Brea, whom she long survived. Low was politically active in the workers' cause from civil war Spain to Hitler's Prague to revolutionary Cuba. Finished her working life as a classics teacher in Florida, dying in 2007.
Michael Löwy (France) Brazil born, France-based, an acclaimed researcher and author in sociology, philosophy, Marxism, Surrealism and revolutionary Romanticism. Creator of surrealist collage and friend of many surrealist groups worldwide. Active in eco-socialist circles to this day.
Apio Ludd (United States) - A vagabond friend of surrealism and Dada, Max Stirner, Ned Ludd and all things free and beautifully random. Disdainer of copyright and work.
C . M. Lundberg (Sweden) is an artist and activist of the Surrealist group in Stokholm.
Conroy Maddox (United Kingdom) was a painter of insolent and humorous visual jibes at the pretenses of official and publicly sanctioned "reality". A favorite of more than one generation, he died in 2005 at the age of 92.
Josie Malinowski (United Kingdom) is a member of SLAG (Surrealist London Action Group.)
David Marcus (United States) demonstrated in his painting the rootedness of abstract expressionism in surrealism. He was the most automatic of the painters who followed the example and teaching of Li Hidley.
Maria Marques (Brazil) is a photographer member of the surrealist group of Sáo Paulo who also works with the Atelier Bricoleur art therapy institute.
Tristan Meinecke (United States) was an early member of Chicago Bauhaus, who later gravitated to the Chicago Surrealist Group in the 1970s. He participated in several of the group's exhibitions and publications before his death in 2004.
Franklin Miller II (United States) "Paco De Nada" master Flamenco guitarist and creator of the PACOBOOKS series of drawings and poetry.
Jacinto Minot (Cuba) participated with drawings in the World Surrealist Exhibition in Chicago in 1976.
Richard Misiano - Genovese (United States) Proactively immersed in surrealist thought since the 1960's; theorist, originator and proponent of excavation collage method, and fixed on the continual re-invention and investigation of the human female form.
Thomas Mordant (France, Belgium) Surrealist poet and artist, member of the Group of Paris since 1990, creatior of his own striking ink drawings, and many works in collaboration with Ody Saban.
Luiz Morgandinho (Portugal) Plastic artist and painter, collaborates with the collective automatism group CABO MONDEGO
SECTION OF PORTUGUESE SURREALISM.
MORDYSABBATH (France) The poetic unity of Ody Saban and Thomas Mordant, a collective entity creating works on paper of a delirious quality of inspiration.
David Nadeau (Canada) is a member of the surrealist group "La Vertèbre et le Rossignol."
Niklas Nenzén (Sweden) is a surrealist artist with the group in Sockholm, since the late 1990s has worked with John Andersson on the comic book series "Diabolik."
Sheila Nopper (Canada) is a feminist writer and dub-inspired poet whose current activism is focused on anti-coal issues and free radio.
Anna Novak (United States) Young Pennsylvania student, painter drawn to automatism and biomorphic themes.
Francisca Bravo Olguin (Chile) Plastic artist, theatrical designer, musician and stop motion animator. Actively participated in the international surrealist encounter "El Umbral Secreto" in Chile, 2009 - 2010.
Martin Plaut (United States, France) Former brain surgeon, painter, sculptor in wood and stone. Presented many exciting and challenging artists, including surrealists and expressionists in his Unicorn Gallery.
Irene Plazewska (Ireland) Formerly of Chicago, close to the group there and the Surrealist Movement in the U. S. Painter with current emphasis on erotic and mythological themes.
Seixas Peixoto (Portugal) Painter, ceramist, sculptor and poet. Collaborates with the collective automatism group CABO MONDEGO SECTION OF PORTUGUESE SURREALISM.
Marta Perez (Portugal) is a painter and the youngest member of Portuguese surrealism. Collaborates with the collective automatism group CABO MONDEGO SECTION OF PORTUGUESE SURREALISM.
Heloisa Pessoa (Brazil) is a surrealist artist, creator of fine etchings, member of the Sáo Paulo group.
Nancy Peters (United States) San Francisco editor, writer and painter, for many years active with City Lights Press. Peters has been affiliated with surrealism in San Francisco and Chicago, and was a long-time companion of poet Philip Lamantia.
Katerina Pinosova (Czech Republic) is an artist of Prague, associated with the Surrealist group there and it's influential journal of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Analogon.
Pedro Prata (Portugal) Painter and sculptor. From very early exhibited a taste for art and a desire to transform the emotions into phenomena, able to overcome what we consider an objective and linear reality in order to create a huge impact on the surreal tendency present in all his work. Collaborates with the collective automatism group CABO MONDEGO SECTION OF PORTUGUESE SURREALISM.
Diane di Prima (United States) was a notable early adherent of the beat movment in poetry. She become an ongoing champion of its rebellious spirit in a later career, as a renowned voice of the female imagination in "Loba" and over two dozen other books.
Hal Rammel (United States) of Wisconsin, is a creator of musical instruments and an improvisational performer, as well as an author and artist. Formerly of Chicago, he participated in Surrealist activities with the group there.
João Rasteiro (Portugal) is a poet who collaborates with the collective automatism group CABO MONDEGO SECTION OF PORTUGUESE SURREALISM.
Kait Rhoads (United States) Sculptor in glass and unusual materials, works in the Seattle area, sometimes teaches in the East.
Wendy Risteska (United Kingdom) is a memeber of SLAG (Surrealist London Action Group.)
Brian Rogers (United States) Lives and occassionally exhibits paintings in Pennsylvania. Creator of many monumental canvasses depicting subterranean archetypes and conflicts.
Fatima Roque (Brazil) is a photographer participating in the Sáo Paulo Surrealist Group.
Penelope Rosemont (United States) Foremost surrealist activist in the united States, along with Franklin Rosemont, since the 1960s. Painter, poet, theorist, inventor of numerous forms of pictorial improvisation. Author of Surrealist Women, a huge ground-breaking anthology establishing the significant role of women in the movement.
Franklin Rosemont (United States) Recently deceased cofounder, and principal representative of the Chicago Surrealist Group and the Surrealist Movement in the United States. Poet, artist, theoretician, historian of U. S. labor movement, co-editor of Arsenal, Surrealist Subversion. Franklin died in April, 2009.
Guy Rousille (France, Mexico) Contemporary surrealist painter, active from his early youth in the 1950s. Participated in World Surrealist exhibition in Chicago (1976). Recently exhibited in Bali.
Ody Saban (France) Famed Outsider artist and militant surrealist. Born in Turkey, longtime Paris resident. A friend and comrade of all the leading French surrealists, she has appeared in numerous important one person and group exhibitions.
Ron Sakolsky (Canada) Writer and editor on diverse outsider-anarchist subjects; surrealism, pirate radio, radical history, edited a major anthology of U. S. surrealism: Surrealist Subversions.
Enrique de Santiago (Chile) Poet and painter. A major animator of surrealist activities in Chile with Group Derrame. Directed huge exhibition in Chile, El Umbral Secreto (2009-10).
Leandro Santos (Brazil) is an artist participating with the Sáo Paulo Surrealist Group.
Jan Schlechter Duvall (Indonesia) was an Asian-born painter, escapee from imperial Japan's wartime slave labor force, who discovered surrealism in the Netherlands and later affiliated with the U. S. movement based in Chicago in the early 1970s. Duvall became a universally-admired legend in surrealist circles, painting until his death in 2009.
M. K. Shibek (United States) is a surrealist activist and experimentor in visual and audio media in the U.S. northwest. Formerly with the now inactive Portland Surrealist Group, he maintains an intervention with the website "The Unexpected Sound."
Nilmar Silveira (Brazil) is an artist participating with the Sáo Paulo Surrealist Group.
Louise Simons (United States) was an early friend and member of Chicago Surrealist Group, participating in many group activities as artist and activist.
Gregg Simpson (Canada) Surrealist and abstract painter, jazz musician of note and longevity. Recently involved in collective creation of art with European surrealists.
SLAG - Surrealist London Action Group (United Kingdom) Paul Cowdell, Merl Fluin, Mattias Forshage, Patrick Hourihan
Winston Smith (United States) edgy contemporary collage artist specializing in his own innovative form of pop-punk surrealism. Leaning toward controversy whenever possible, he has done album illustration work for Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra.
Solveig (Sweden) met the Chicago Surrealist Group in 1989, participated in creation of "exquisite corpse collages" seen in the first ever exhibition of such works, at the Heartland Cafe Gallery in Rogers Park.
Andres Soto-Nunez (Chile) is a surrealist painter affiliated with Xaleshem Surrealist Group. Participant in the international surrealist gathering "El Umbral Secreto" (2009-10).
Martin Stejskal (Czech Republic) has been associated with surrealism in Prague since the 1960s through painting, poetry and group activity centered around the journal Analogon.
Jan Svankmajer (Czech Republic) Renowned cinamatic creator, known for brilliant and disturbing anti-epics, such as "Alice" and "Faust", as well as for disquieting ventures into pictorial arts.
Richard Szczepaniak (United States) Outsider artist, studied art and music in New York city in his youth. Circumstances occasioned move to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he still remains interested in art and ideas.
Debra Taub (United States) Dancer, painter, collagist, early member of the Chicago Surrealist Group whose effective commitment led to much of the group's success.
Patrick Turner (United States) collagist known for his contributions to the U. S surrealist journal Arsenal, Surrealist Subversions.
Daniel de Valle Hernandez (Puerto Rico) Surrealist poet and artist, active in Puerto Rican independence movement.
Michael Vandelaar (Australia) One of the chief organizers of the Surrealist Group in South Australia, deeply involved in the insurgent music scene down under.
Herr de Vries (Netherlands) artist, along with Laurens Vancrevel founded in Amsterdam (1959) the important surrealist periodical "Brumes Blondes" as a function of their Bureau of Surrealist Research. This was the group that brought the late Schlecter Duval into the surrealist movement.
Susana Wald (Mexico) Poet and visual artist with long resume in South, North, and Central America. Currently lives in Oaxaca with, as always, Ludwig Zeller.
Alberto Weller (United States) Painter, longstanding creator in Pennsylvania of brut, subterranean explorations of the mind obssessed. Signatory of the U. S. surrealist manifesto "Now that tourists have replaced seers."
John Welson (United Kingdom) Painter from Wales, for decades a major force in Surrealist art in the UK. Recently recognized with an exhibition (with Jean-Claude Charbonel) at the National Library of Wales.
Mark Wesling (United States) is a painter, composer and guitarist in Central Pennsylvania. He provided valuable assistance in the preparations and logistical work for the exhibition "Surrealism in 2012: Toward the World of the Fifth Sun."
Joel Williams (United States) has been a member of the Chicago Surrealist Group since the 1970's, collaborating on numerous publishing projects and exhibitions. His collages were featured in a one-person show at the Platypus Gallery in 1983.
Burnell Yow! (United States) A leading imagination in the underground art scene in Philadelphia, with surrealist roots and branches in all directions, including dumpster art, and digital collage. "There are no rules, only materials."
Haifa Zangana (Iraq) is a writer, artist, and political activist, engaged in the issues of women in Iraq and the Arab world. Her recent book "City of Widows" focuses on the plight of women and children caught in the maelstrom of imperialist aggression in her native country.
Ludwig Zeller (Mexico) A principal exponent of surrealist collage in the original manner, with eyes like scissors and scissors like a demiurge. Formerly of Chile and Canada, now lives in Oaxaca.