A daydream can be born from an instance -- a brief flash of the external world that gives way to a flood of associations, diverting our attention from the real to the imagined. As our minds begin to wander from the conscious paths we know and become lost within a tangled sea, reality fades to grey and we drift into a magical space. 

Artists have often sought to arouse the unconscious desires that lay in these waking reveries and give them material form. Each of the four artists presented in Stray Passages reach deep into the human psyche to fill the imaginative space of what can’t be perceived. Guy Rubicon's thickly painted depictions of ethereal forests give life to a host of nocturnal creatures and imaginary knights that seem to materialize from the shadows. Notably lighter in tone, Nutsa Gogaladze’s fair creatures evoke a perceived infinitude, conjuring shimmering glows of stardust that envelop our senses. A former tattoo artist, Nacho Eterno has developed a personal, pictographic language in paint -- a family of characters that shift between colorful symbols and graphic abstraction, all while maintaining an incredibly rich mark of the hand. And artist Michael McGrath masterfully balances atmospheric hues with flattened space to create a phantasmic world that explores personal themes of mysticism and mythology.

This online exhibition attempts to unlock the fantastic. We invite you to journey with these artists into their magnificent dreamworlds -- to drift amongst the meandering woodlands of our collective imagination, where time folds its wings and we're pulled away on a beam of moonlight.