THE REAL SURREAL PART III: HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN
(JULY 10 - SEPTEMBER 5, 2025)
Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition: The Real Surreal Part III: How the Light Gets In from July 10 - September 5, 2025.
This third part of our trilogy of exhibitions presents other artists involved with our gallery who, independently of any art movement, non-personal agenda or canon have integrated art and especially the process of making art, into the very areas claimed by mainstream Surrealists, who intellectually sought to achieve in their own work automatic writing and drawing, the immediacy of madness, the juxtapositions of diverse materials in unexpected conformations, dreams, psychic phenomena, occult magic, and spiritualism in its varied usages.
Přemysl Martinec
Untitled, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
18 x 13 inches
45.7 x 33 cm
PyM 6
Přemysl Martinec
Untitled, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
19 x 14.25 inches
48.3 x 36.2 cm
PyM 3
Catherine Garrigue
My silence is shaped by the whisper of shadows, (Mon silence est façonné par les murmures des
ombres), 2024
Ink pen on kraft paper
16.5 x 11.75 inches
41.9 x 29.8 cm
CGr 6
Catherine Garrigue
The Dwellings of Eternity 1/3 (Les demeures de l'éternité) 1/3, 2023
Fountain pen on kraft paper
16.75 x 10.75 inches
42.5 x 27.3 cm
CGr 5
Catherine Garrigue
Great Metamorphoses 3, Les Grande Métamorphoses 3, 2021
Ink pen and acrylic paint on card
27.5 x 18 inches
69.9 x 45.7 cm
CGr 1
Loïc Lucas
Grotesque, 2016
Ink on paper
7.25 x 10.25 inches
18.4 x 26 cm
LLu 21
Loïc Lucas
Grotesque, 2016
Ink on paper
7.25 x 10.25 inches
18.4 x 26 cm
LLu 22
Loïc Lucas
Grotesque, 2016
Ink on paper
7.25 x 10.25 inches
18.4 x 26 cm
LLu 23
Loïc Lucas
Grotesque, 2016
Ink on paper
7.25 x 10.25 inches
18.4 x 26 cm
LLu 24
Rosie McLachlan
Yesterday and Tomorrow, 2022
Heavily grogged body with South Tyne river clay, anagama natural ash, wood fired
6.5 x 5 x 2.75 inches
16.5 x 12.7 x 7 cm
RoM 5
Rosie McLachlan
Be Wise, Be Wise, 2022
Heavily grogged body with South Tyne river clay, anagama natural ash, wood fired
8 x 6.5 x 6.25 inches
20.3 x 16.5 x 15.9 cm
RoM 6
Rosie McLachlan
Hind, 2023
Heavily grogged clay body with Kingwater and South Tyne river clay, anagama natural ash
3 x 12 x 1.75 inches
7.6 x 30.5 x 4.4 cm
RoM 4
Dagmar Havlíčková
Untitled, 2023
Ink on paper
33.75 x 24 inches
85.7 x 61 cm
DHav 9
Dagmar Havlíčková
Untitled, 2021
Ink on paper
33.75 x 24 inches
85.7 x 61 cm
DHav 8
We have also included several Contemporary artists to augment this group, trained artists who are not catering to the mainstream canon. The people who create this work follow idiosyncratic iconoclastic paths, mainstream or non-mainstream. We can say the ‘official’ Surrealists made their work ABOUT the phenomena mentioned above, and these non-mainstream artists make their work from within those phenomena.
Olga Karlíková
Drozd, kos, cvrčilka, rákosník (thrush, blackbird, grasshopper warbler, reed warbler, 1981
Ink on paper
23.5 x 15.75 inches
59.7 x 40 cm
OK 1
Olga Karlíková
Deštná Slavík (common nightingale), 1998
Ink on paper
16.5 x 11.75 inches
41.9 x 29.8 cm
OK 9
Olga Karlíková
Zpěv velryba (Whale Song), 1990's
Charcoal on paper
11.75 x 16.5 inches
29.8 x 41.9 cm
OK 11
Nicole Frobusch
Ascension , 2024
Handmade watercolor and gold on rice paper
16.54 x 11.81 inches
42 x 30 cm
NFro 23
Nicole Frobusch
Harmony, 2024
Natural earth pigments & 24k gold on hemp paper
17.75 x 13.5 inches
45.1 x 34.3 cm
NFro 42
Nicole Frobusch
Cosmic Egg, 2024
Natural earth pigments & 24k gold on hemp paper
18 x 13.5 inches
45.7 x 34.3 cm
NFro 39
Nicole Frobusch
Throne, 2024
Natural earth pigments & 24k gold on hemp paper
16.5 x 11.5 inches
41.9 x 29.2 cm
NFro 40
Jean-Pierre Nadau
Malgré l'absence de photons annonciateurs, 2024
Micron pen on paper
29.5 x 43 inches
74.9 x 109.2 cm
JPN 36
Jean-Pierre Nadau
Sans titre, 2024
Micron pen on paper
25.5 x 19.75 inches
64.8 x 50.2 cm
JPN 34
Jean Dubuffet and André Breton were prophetic in their fields but were not around long enough to observe the contemporary manifestations and new additions to the field. This is particularly true regarding artists of non-Western origin and the African-Atlantic diaspora. The gates are opening in institutions such as the Collection de L’art Brut, Lausanne, and the Pompidou Center (inheritor of Bruno Decharme’s esteemed abcd collection, now on view at the Grand Palais in the exhibition titled Dans l’intimité d’une collection) to continue the work of exposure and information on this magic facet of non-mainstream contemporary art all across the Ethnosphere, as Wade Davis has so fittingly named it.
Davood Koochaki
Untitled, 2010-2019
Graphite on paper
27.5 x 39.25 inches
69.9 x 99.7 cm
DKoo 122
Davood Koochaki
Untitled, 2010-2019
Graphite, colored pencil on paper
39.25 x 27.5 inches
99.7 x 69.9 cm
DKoo 127
Everald Brown
Four Person Dove Harp, 1992
Metal, polychromed wood
29 x 67 x 13 inches
73.7 x 170.2 x 33 cm
EB 32
Shneider Léon Hilaire
Vows to Damballah, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 inches
76.2 x 101.6 cm
SLH 24
Chrissy Callas
Anna Zemánková
Untitled, late 1970s, early 1980s
Satin collage, textile paint, pastel and ballpoint pen on paper
Image Dimensions:
11.75 x 8.25 inches
29.8 x 21 cm
AZe 778
Anna Zemánková
Untitled, late 1970s, early 1980s
Satin collage, textile paint, marker, pastel and ballpoint pen on paper
Image Dimensions:
11.75 x 8.25 inches
29.8 x 21 cm
AZe 787
Anna Zemánková
Untitled, late 1970s
Paper collage, pastel, and ballpoint pen on paper
11.75 x 16.5 inches
29.8 x 41.9 cm
AZe 742
Anna Zemánková
Untitled, 1980s
Satin collage, textile paint, pastel and ballpoint pen on paper
11.61 x 8.27 inches
29.5 x 21 cm
AZe 493
Catherine Garrigue
Flowers of the Soul (1), 2019
Gel pen on paper
12.75 x 9.25 inches
32.4 x 23.5 cm
CGr 2
Catherine Garrigue
Flowers of the Soul (3), 2019
Gel pen on paper
12.75 x 9.25 inches
32.4 x 23.5 cm
CGr 4
Nicole Frobusch
Otherworldly Teora 1, 2023
Handmade watercolor on paper
8.27 x 5.91 inches
21 x 15 cm
NFro 7
Nicole Frobusch
Otherworldly Teora 4, 2023
Handmade watercolor on paper
8.27 x 5.91 inches
21 x 15 cm
NFro 5
Nicole Frobusch
Otherworldly Teora 2, 2023
Handmade watercolor on paper
8.27 x 5.91 inches
21 x 15 cm
NFro 8
These are the artists who are also most sensitive and vulnerable to world events. Surrealism was a reaction to, and antidote for, institutional repression of culture and the creative soul. For third-world artists it celebrated the right to personal freedom. Dubuffet at one point called it the work of the ‘common man’ but in truth the common man who makes this work is also the charismatic individual who is a culture bearer for spiritual and visionary knowledge and ancestral information. André Breton sensed this when he added the works of Haitian master and Vodou priest Hector Hyppolite to the Art Brut Collection. It was a shame the paintings were later withdrawn when the collection came to New York. We are making up for that error now by exploring the visionary creatives from ALL parts of the world. This is how the light gets in.
Czech Republic
Anonymous Mediumistic Drawing, 9/13/1945
Crayon on paper
8.66 x 11.81 inches
22 x 30 cm
Cze 26
Czech Republic
Anonymous Mediumistic Drawing, 9/6/1946
Crayon on paper
8.66 x 11.81 inches
22 x 30 cm
Cze 27
Czech Republic
Anonymous Mediumistic Drawing, 1/25/1946
Crayon on paper
8.66 x 11.81 inches
22 x 30 cmCze 28
Czech Republic
Anonymous Mediumistic Drawing, 2/27/1945
Crayon on paper
11.81 x 8.66 inches
30 x 22 cm
Cze 35
Andrey Tischenko
Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2025
Ballpoint pen, graphite on paper
12.75 x 27 inches
32.4 x 68.6 cm
NoA 419
Noviadi Angkasapura
Untitled, 2023
Ballpoint pen, graphite on paper
27 x 14.75 inches
68.6 x 37.5 cm
NoA 389
Imam Sucahyo
Malu - Embarrased, 2022
Pen, color pencil on paper
53.15 x 18.5 inches
135 x 47 cm
ISu 1
Masks
Leonard Daley
Humpy Dumpy What The Best, 1992
Mixed media on canvas
55 x 37 inches
139.7 x 94 cm
LE 44
Indonesia
Flores Island, Finial from roof of traditional "Adat" house
Human/Buffalo Guardian Spirit
Lio District, Ende Regency, late 19th, very early 20th C.
Wood
30 x 20 x 7 inches
76.2 x 50.8 x 17.8 cm
In 44
Nepal
Protective figure, 18th-19th C.
Wood
29 x 9 x 8 inches
73.7 x 22.9 x 20.3 cm
Nep 76
Nepal
Shrine / Roof Guardian, 19th c.
Wood
39 x 8 x 9 inches
99.1 x 20.3 x 22.9 cm
Nep 62s
Ilija Bosilj Bašičević
The Royal Hunt, 1964
Oil on canvas
27 x 123 inches
68.6 x 312.4 cm
IBo 38
Shinichi Sawada
Untitled, 2016
Wood fired ceramic
3.75 x 7.75 x 7.125 inches
9.5 x 19.7 x 18.1 cm
ShSa 7
Shinichi Sawada
Untitled, 2020
Wood fired ceramic
6.75 x 11.75 x 8.75 inches
17.1 x 29.8 x 22.2 cm
ShSa 6
Kazumi Kamae
Untitled
Fired ceramic
8.5 x 7 x 7 inches
21.6 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm
KaK 29
Masami Yamagiwa
Face, 2004
Fired Ceramic
8 x 5.5 x 6 inches
20.3 x 14 x 15.2 cm
MYa 14
Masami Yamagiwa
Face, 2003
Fired Ceramic
8 x 7 x 11.5 inches
20.3 x 17.8 x 29.2 cm
MYa 17
Franck K. Lundangi
Insect to the Man, 2003
Ink on paper
31.5 x 22 inches
80 x 55.9 cm
FLu 11
André Pierre
Initiation Ceremony, n.d.
Oil on canvas
23.75 x 35.75 inches
60.3 x 90.8 cm
AP 20
Artists in the exhibition include Angkasapura, José Bedia, J.J. Cromer, Leonard Daley, Nicole Frobusch, Catherine Garrigue, Dagmar Havlíčková, Shneider Léon Hilaire, Davood Koochaki, Olga Karlíková, Loïc Lucas, Přemysl Martinec, Jean-Pierre Nadau, Simone Pellegrini, Andre Pierre, Imam Sucahyo and Anna Zemánková. Sculptors include Chrissy Callas, Rosie McLachlan, Yohei Nishimura, Andrey Tischenko, and Petros Tsakmaklis.
There is a Crack in Everything; That’s How the Light Gets In
-Leonard Cohen
Simone Pellegrini
Vario diafano, 2019
Mixed media on paper
38 x 65 inches
96.5 x 165.1 cm
SiP 16
Simone Pellegrini
Grave radiante, 2018
Mixed media on paper
37.8 x 68.9 inches
96 x 175 cm
SiP 9
Petros Tsakmaklis
Christian P, 2013
High temperature clay (stoneware) for the body and a mix of mineral oxides and low temperature clay for glaze, 1 firing at 1240 Celsius
9 x 15.5 x 9.5 inches
22.9 x 39.4 x 24.1 cm
PT 5
J.J. Cromer
I’m Not Here to Struggle with You Eternally, 2025
Mixed media on paper
10 x 8 inches
25.4 x 20.3 cm
JCr 12
J.J. Cromer
Overnight the Word Spread Further Still, 2025
Mixed media on paper
10 x 8 inches
25.4 x 20.3 cm
JCr 13