The REALity Show
Curated by Austyn Taylor
(Sonoma, CA)
Works of humble lifeforms in a chaotic world.
We are animals and have no free will.
What is the show doing-
“Coming out of the closet” about how we are all animals and there is no free will. The truth is that we live within illusions and are no different from the other innocent life forms of earth.
Why now-
People need clarity, truth, beauty and an absurd
Why you-
I am a true believer in art. I follow Nietzsche's hope that after killing god and seeing reality that perhaps visual art can offer something to ground our being upon in this chaotic and cruel dead world. ☠️
Why it belongs in their space-
You (Brittany Fanning of Instagram) are pioneering what hopefully will become standardized in the future- working artists curating working artists? Artist= cows, making art= milk. Who better knows the field than the cows.🐄🥛🌾
-Sincerely Austyn
Marcelle Reinecke
Shroom Hunt
acrylic and flashe on panel
20" x 16" / 51 x 41cm
2024
A beautiful memory of youth, a gentle psychedelic introduction to appreciation for light and the natural world. A “one with everything” pizza experience to create a lasting sense of wonder and indescribable knowing.
Fernando Tinoco
El Eterno Pancho
graphite and charcoal on canvas
40” x 29” / 100 x 73cm
2024
The trip turns briefly dark. Everything is clearly dangerous, the cycles of life and death endlessly swirling as a black hole of enviable abyss.
Alexander Deschamps
Greenwood
soft pastel on burlap
18” x 24” / 46 x 61cm
2024
But there is overwhelming beauty in the mystery, life blooms and renews on a perfect planet of opportunity. You can see the patterns, the histories and how language shaped our minds and the people world. Repetition Repetition Repetition.
All My Friends Are Online
acrylic on canvas
26.6” x 21” / 65.3 x 53cm
2025
You see yourself and see the universe as a universe that is 100% you and you 100% it. There is no separation, you are it~ we and all the atoms are what is.
TEPHRA
oil on linen
50” x 44” / 127 x 112cm
2022
Swing back into contemplating the separation and the connection we are the mother and the child, seer and the seen, destroyer and creator. Maybe just a temporary illness?
Jiri Mayer
Tiger
acrylic on linen
48” x 63” / 120 x 160cm
2022
Evolution’s game seems like a fierce comedy. Absolutely serious in the playfulness of joy preparing the muscles in ear shot of tragedy.
Philip Gerald
Sexy Tree
gouache on paper
8” x 6” / 19 x 15 cm
2024
Mother nature remains indifferent. She flaunts her cruelty, her silliness, relaxed in plague and suffering, time is on her side.
Nat Meade
Gust
oil on linen
18 x 16 in / 45.7 x 40.6 cm
2020
Time is running out for all things, all the time, no time, anytime, father time.
Peter Opheim
Someday
oil on canvas
24” x 32” / 61 x 82cm
2026
None of it would have ever made sense anyway. Can you blame the birds and bees?
Kyle Staver
Justice
oil on linen
68” x 54” / 173 x 137cm
2022
The animal that is human. We can not see ourselves as earth creatures born of earth history. Never forgive, never take it seriously, never relax a secret animal drive we all carry, “Why did I do that?”
Fatima de Juan
Everyday I’m Hustling
acrylic paint, spray paint on canvas
138” x 99” / 350 x 250cm
2022
There is a game to play, a dance to find rhythm in. A hunger for the world, for red blood, ripe fruit and soft pillows.
Megan Ellen MacDonald
Happy Hump Day
oil on canvas
36” x 34” / 92 x 87 cm
2023
Death unites us. Everyone will die. It is ok! Not a single one of us will be here in the next blink. We are brothers and sisters in time. It’s April 1st 2026 writing this.