The Absurd (2022)
April 1 to May 15, 2022
The Absurd (2022) was presented from April 1 to May 15, 2022 as a mixed media exhibition of 22 works by 21 artists. Its original framing draws on the philosophical tradition associated with Albert Camus and asks how people search for meaning in a world that resists explanation. Repetition, irony, humor, contradiction, endless digital loops, and the rituals and pressures of daily life establish the exhibition's vocabulary. The catalog includes 21 image-credit entries spanning painting, drawing, collage, photography, printmaking, assemblage, mixed media, digital art, and an NFT, plus Johanna Sarah Schlenk's separate HD video, The Wheel. Recorded processes and materials range from silver gelatin and dye sublimation on aluminum to hand-pulled linocut, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, oil, gouache, acrylic, architectural CAD drawings, packing tape, and cradled wood panel. Featured artist credits reach across the United States and locations in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. These are artist credit locations, not claims about where the works were made. This page keeps the complete exhibition record available inside TCG Gallery's permanent online exhibition archive. Explore all 22 works below, then continue through related exhibitions or current photography open calls.
Meaning Without Resolution
The Absurd (2022) is a completed contemporary mixed media exhibition preserved in TCG Gallery's online exhibition archive. Its 22 works by 21 artists answer an original theme built around the tension between the search for meaning and a world that resists explanation. The page names repetition, irony, humor, contradiction, endless digital loops, and daily rituals as points of entry. It also invokes Camus and Sisyphus as part of the exhibition's own framing. The archive keeps that language tied to the catalog rather than extending it into an outside philosophical history or assigning invented meanings to individual works.
Painting, Drawing, and Works on Paper
Painting and drawing appear through several distinct media. Runcie Tatnall's Broken (Tyson vs. Kool Aid Man) and Jasmine Raskas's They Took Me On A Helicopter Ride are credited as acrylic on canvas. Joshua Wells's Folie à Deux is oil on canvas, while Leili Khabiri's Sacred Sparagmos (Diptych) is watercolor on paper. Aaron Krone's Cerebrus is graphite and charcoal, and Cal Rice's Entropy combines gouache and acrylic paint on wood panel. The catalog also records oil and mixed media, acrylic with mixed media, and a digital art print. These credit lines make the page searchable by process without turning the artwork titles into unsupported visual descriptions.
Photography, Printmaking, and Digital Formats
Photographic and print processes sit beside painting rather than defining the entire exhibition. S. Jones Thompson's Falling Up is a silver gelatin print. Sofia Monzerratt's Falling In is a photo print, and Preeti Garg Schaden's Trying is recorded as photography using dye sublimation on aluminum. Véronique Van Meerbeek's Absurd Series #03, Trump is a giclee print on Harman warmtone gloss paper. Anthony Carlton Cooke's The Temptation Towards Quietude is a hand-pulled linocut using India ink and acrylic. Tarik Uzunyerliler's Visionary is listed as an NFT. Together, those catalog facts connect the page to searches for fine art photography, alternative print formats, printmaking, and digital art while keeping each medium exactly attached to its credited work.
Collage, Assemblage, and Time-Based Work
The exhibition also includes constructed and time-based media. Thad DeVassie's They See Us As Data combines acrylic and latex paint, ink, packing tape, and architectural CAD drawings on cradled wood panel, while LENT is credited as collage. Samantha Heydt's Sneak Peak into What's to Come is an assemblage. Maria Risner's Melancholia and Adam Mazy's Don't Go are mixed media works, and Sticky's Catch A Buzz combines acrylic with mixed media on canvas. Separate from the 21 image-credit entries, Johanna Sarah Schlenk's The Wheel is an HD video with a runtime of two minutes and fifteen seconds in a 16:9 format. Its separate presentation is why this archive records 22 works without calling all 22 photographs or images.
A Mixed Media Record in the TCG Archive
The featured-artist credit lines include locations across the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Those locations identify artists in the catalog; they are not treated here as nationalities or as evidence of where particular works were produced. The page preserves the exhibition title, dates, roster, work titles, media, dimensions, edition details, and historical listed prices as a searchable record of the finished exhibition. It also preserves the separate video section and Artist Inquiries block below the main catalog. Explore all 22 works on this page, continue to The Uncanny for another mixed media exhibition, browse the permanent exhibition archive, or review TCG Gallery's current photography open calls.
Featured Artists
Don Bergland, Thad DeVassie, Runcie Tatnall, Véronique Van Meerbeek, Jasmine Raskas, Adam Mazy, Aaron Krone, Anna Yoo, Joshua Wells, Leili Khabiri, S. Jones Thompson, Tarik Uzunyerliler, Samantha Heydt, Preeti Garg Schaden, Maria Risner, Sticky, Anthony Carlton Cooke, Tom White, Cal Rice, Sofia Monzerratt, Johanna Sarah Schlenk
Antique Deuce, Pigment ink on paper, 24in x 30in, 2019, Price: $675, Don Bergland, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada
They See Us As Data, Acrylic and latex paint, ink, packing tape, architectural CAD drawings on cradled wood panel, 12in x 12in, 2022, Price: $500, Thad DeVassie, Powell, Ohio
LENT, Collage, 6.25in x 9.25in, 2022, Price: $400, Thad DeVassie, Powell, Ohio
Broken (Tyson vs. Kool Aid Man), Acrylic on canvas, 16in x 20in, 2020, Price: $1600, Runcie Tatnall, Miami, Florida
Absurd Series #03 - Trump, Giclée print on Harman warmtone gloss paper, 22in x 10in, 2022, Price: $200, Véronique Van Meerbeek, London, United Kingdom
They Took Me On A Helicopter Ride, Acrylic on canvas, 48in x 24in, 2021, Price: $1300, Jasmine Raskas, St. Louis, Missouri
Don't Go, Mixed media, 18in x 27in, 2021, Price: NFS, Adam Mazy, Staten Island, New York, New York
Cerebrus, Graphite and charcoal, 27in x 22in, 2015, Price: NFS, Aaron Krone, Wichita, Kansas
Overload, Oil and mixed media, 24in x 24in x 2in, 2020, Price: 2000, Anna Yoo, Harpers Mill, Virginia
Folie à Deux, Oil on canvas, 30in x 24in, 2021, Price: £625, Joshua Wells, Kent, United Kingdom
Sacred Sparagmos (Diptych), Watercolour on paper, 30cm x 42cm, 2021, Price: $500, Leili Khabiri, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Falling Up, Silver Gelatin Print, 30in x 20in, 2019, Price: $300, S. Jones Thompson, Morganton, Georgia
Visionary, NFT, 3338px x 3312px, 2022 Price: $1200, Tarik Uzunyerliler, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Sneak Peak into What's to Come, Assemblage, 100cm x 100cm x 5cm, 2020, Price: $5000, Samantha Heydt, Newport, Rhode Island
Trying, Photography, Dye sublimation on aluminum print, 20in x 30in, 2020, Price: $1800, Preeti Garg Schaden, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Melancholia, Mixed media, 18in x 48in x 5in, 2018, Price: $1000, Maria Risner, Hindman, Kentucky
Catch A Buzz, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 24in x 24in x 1in, 2022, Price: NFS, Sticky, Omaha, Nebraska
The Temptation Towards Quietude, Hand-pulled linocut, India ink, and acrylic, 16in x 20in, 2022, Price: $320, Anthony Carlton Cooke, Atlanta, Georgia
False Morels, Digital art print, 30in x 40in, 2021, Price: $800, Tom White, Chicago, Illinois
Entropy, Gouache and acrylic paint on wood panel, 24in x 22in, 2019, Price: $2400, Cal Rice, Brighton, Massachusetts
Falling In, Photo print, 18in x 24in, 2019, Price: $400, Sofia Monzerratt, New York, New York
The Wheel
HD-Video, Runtime: 02:15, 16:9, 2022, Price: NFS, Johanna Sarah Schlenk, Bonn, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany
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