The Surreal (2022)

November 1 to December 1, 2022

The Surreal (2022) was presented from November 1 to December 1, 2022 as an online photography exhibition of 33 works by 33 artists. Its original framing approaches Surrealism through the human psyche, dreams, the unconscious, juxtaposition, symbolism, altered perception, and the transformation of reality. The live catalog makes that theme searchable through exact process records: 21 archival photo prints, four archival pigment prints, two gelatin-silver prints, one photograph on canvas with thread, one work combining white charcoal with a photographic print, one wet plate collodion tintype, and three entries with no medium listed. Featured Artist credits reach across the United States and include locations in Israel, Italy, Greece, Argentina, Germany, Australia, Ukraine, Pakistan, and Canada. Those are catalog credits, not statements of nationality or where any work was made. This page preserves the complete roster, all 33 records, dimensions, edition notes, historical listed prices, POR and NFS fields inside TCG Gallery's permanent online photography exhibition archive. Explore the full exhibition below, then continue through later editions of The Surreal, the archive, or current photography open calls.

Dreams, the Unconscious, and Transformed Reality

The Surreal (2022) is a completed contemporary photography exhibition of 33 works by 33 artists. The original page frames Surrealism through dreams, the unconscious mind, juxtaposition, symbolism, altered perception, and reality transformed beyond ordinary logic. Those ideas define the exhibition as a whole. The archive does not assign one of them to an individual photograph simply because of a title, and it does not extend the page into an outside history of Surrealism or psychology. Instead, the catalog remains the evidence, preserving titles, processes when listed, dimensions, years, artist credits, and historical price fields.

Twenty-Five Archival Photo and Pigment Prints

Twenty-one entries are identified as archival photo prints and four as archival pigment prints. Richard Aardsma's Utopian Fantasy, Christopher W. Luhar-Trice's Agony and Ecstasy, Tom Chambers's Justice, and Pieter de Koninck's The Purpose of Floors are the four pigment-print credits. Archival photo print credits include works by Moti Bazak, Perry Hambright, Billy Ray, Andreas Theologitis, Nanae Ikuta, Miriana Andres, Diane Kravetz, Eian Hazzard, Kicca Tommasi, Mark Dierker, Marcia Bricker, Joon Hee Lee, Vitalii Dyachik, Nazia Akram, Don Bergland, and Dida Papalexandrou. These exact counts describe the output record without claiming one shared visual style.

Gelatin Silver, Tintype, Canvas, and Charcoal

Ross Faircloth's Monolith and Carina Xiao's Untitled are gelatin-silver prints. Thomas Gibson's The Flight I is credited as a wet plate collodion tintype. Mana Urakami's Third Time in One's Life combines a photograph on canvas with thread, while Olivia Sciford's Adrift uses white charcoal on a photographic print. Together, these five works expand the verified process vocabulary beyond archival printing. The archive records the materials and presentation exactly as supplied on the live page without adding process history or inferring how a work looks.

A Complete Catalog Without Invented Hierarchy

Each of the 33 Featured Artists has one work in the catalog. The page records dimensions in inches or centimeters, years, edition and size-on-request notes where supplied, and historical price, POR, or NFS fields. Those details make the exhibition searchable as a catalog without converting the archive into a ranking system. Its value comes from keeping the works, artists, and verified processes together as one 2022 exhibition record. Readers can move from the framing text into the complete artwork grid and encounter every entry within the same archival structure.

Three Works Without a Listed Medium

Irene Ferri's Alienation, Nathan Wilkinson's Between Consciousness and Psychosis, and Jennifer Blue's Revision II each appear with dimensions, year, historical price or NFS field, and artist credit location but no listed medium. The archive leaves those fields incomplete rather than converting titles or dimensions into guessed processes. Featured Artist locations remain catalog credits across the United States and in Israel, Italy, Greece, Argentina, Germany, Australia, Ukraine, Pakistan, and Canada. They do not establish nationality, subject geography, or production location.

The First Surreal Edition in the Online Archive

The Surreal (2022) remains available as a distinct edition inside TCG Gallery's permanent online photography exhibition archive. Historical listed prices, POR, and NFS fields do not establish current availability, and the separate Sales and Artist Inquiries block remains below the catalog. Explore all 33 works on this page, continue to The Surreal (2024), browse the complete exhibition archive, or review current photography open calls.

Featured Artists

Moti Bazak, Irene Ferri, Perry Hambright, Ross Faircloth, Carina Xiao, Billy Ray, Richard Aardsma, Andreas Theologitis, Christopher W. Luhar-Trice, Nanae Ikuta, Miriana Andres, Diane Kravetz, Mana Urakami, Eian Hazzard, Nathan Wilkinson, Kicca Tommasi, Amelia McLeod, Mark Dierker, Olivia Sciford, Tom Chambers, Marcia Bricker, Andrea Gluckman, Joon Hee Lee, Janice Tieken, Leanne Trivett, Vitalii Dyachik, Ken Moran, Nazia Akram, Thomas Gibson, Don Bergland, Jennifer Blue, Dida Papalexandrou, Pieter de Koninck