Liu Kuo-Sung (Liu Guosong) 劉國松, Water is Busy (detail), 1966. Ink on paper; 18.75 x 23.75 in. © Liu Kuo-Sung

Take a Dream Tour through the Galleries

Liu Kuo-Sung (Liu Guosong) 劉國松, Water is Busy (detail), 1966. Ink on paper; 18.75 x 23.75 in. © Liu Kuo-Sung

Hamilton Building

 

Thomas Cole’s Dream of Arcadia offers a dreamy depiction of antiquity and a lush green vision of nature unspoiled by humans.

 

The tranquil setting, delicate colors, and soft lighting in Claude Monet’s The Seine near Giverny (La Seine près de Giverny) illustrate an escapist view of the places we go to daydream.

 

The vibrant colors and surreal imagery in Simphiwe Ndzube's The Bloom of the Corpse Flower invite viewers to step inside a magical world conjured entirely from the artist's imagination.

 

The unsettling reality depicted in Trenton Doyle Hancock's The Legend Is In Trouble begets the question, do we dream the same dreams?

 

Hung Liu's We Have Been Naught We Shall Be All speaks to the infallibility of memories—how they rattle around the subconscious, and how they change and grow hazy over time.

Martin Building

 

The animal figures and fantastical elements in Julie Buffalohead's Blood and a Single Tree serve as metaphors to to describe the emotion and realities of the Native American experience.

 

The definition of a “dream” is examined in Nicholas Galanin’s I Dreamt I Could Fly, with arrows pointing a path toward a different and brighter future.

 

This 18th-century Peruvian Bed made out of wood and gold leaf offers a quite literal view of where we go to dream.

 

Liu Kuo-Sung's Which is Earth? No. 28 is part of a series of works that explores our perspective of the moon and our relationship to the celestial sky and the cosmos.

 

Pietro Fabris paints an absurdist vision of reality in The Game of Civetta, one where men with the bodies of birds get "captured" in traps set by shrewd women.