NICOLAS GADBOIS

OCTOBER 4 - NOVEMBER 22, 2019

ARTSKC GALLERY – NICOLAS GADBOIS’s surreal landscapes are taken from scenes in everyday life that have a quality that is strange or otherworldly. For a number of first wave surrealist painters, emptiness was a significant feature in the art. De Chirico and Dali both drew heavily from scenes expressing existential void.

Gadbois’s work focuses on the altered landscape and cultural emptiness. He takes photographs that are the basis for the paintings, focusing on dead malls, places left behind, and blank billboards. The colors in his work are pushed to reference emotional states, climate change, nuclear reality, and artificial life. Rather than inventing surrealistic scenes in an illustrative way he paints scenes from real life that already appear surreal. *Please note this exhibition will take place at ArtsKC Galleries located at 106 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64108.