Surreal Art In A Surreal Time: Two Artists Reinterpret the Everyday (9/20)

Show Run: September 25th 28th through October 14th

Surreal Art In A Surreal Time:
Two Artists Reinterpret the Everyday

Artists: Ross Alan Bachelder and David Matson

Artist, author and musician Ross Alan Bachelder has worked in several genres over the past twenty-five years, but his greater time and energies have been devoted more and more to found object assemblages and two-dimensional works in acrylic.

“Our exhibit here at Chocolate Church just happens to be the very first time I’ve ever featured just one genre in the same exhibit. More often than not, my exhibits are an intentionally themeless array of genres and approaches, leaning happily toward the wild side. My philosophy as a creative has always been ‘anything goes,’ and I eventually decided that the galleries will either have to accept that truth about me or send me along to a more conventional gallery. That, of course, is their right and their privilege.”
— ROSS ALAN BACHELDER

David Matson is a non-practicing Episcopal priest and follower of Zen with an attraction to Jewish Mystical Thought, among other things. David lives and works in Readfield, Maine.

“I made many of my own toys as a child, and I guess I still am. I didn’t set out to make explicitly topical pieces for this show, but, there you go.”— DAVID MATSON