Moderne Gallery

Subconscious Surfaced | Opening Reception | Friday, May 1, 2026 | 5 – 7 pm | RSVP in bio

Moderne Gallery presents “Subconscious Surfaced”, a group exhibition featuring works from the 1960s through the early 2000s. The exhibition explores a shared thread of surreal, otherworldly sculptural form across a range of expressions, techniques, and contexts.

A number of works in the exhibition derive from the esteemed collection of Marc and Diane Grainer, renowned patrons, collectors, and champions of the arts, who assembled a singular collection over the course of more than forty-five years. We are proud to present these works and to serve as stewards as they find their way into new collections.

On view are works featuring figures, narratives, and compositions drawn from deep within the subconscious, emerging from a realm beyond the threshold of immediate awareness.

Through incongruous forms and psychologically charged imagery, the artists give material presence to subconscious visions, bringing into view what ordinarily remains beyond immediate perception. Situated between the imagined and the tangible, these works offer insight into psychological dimensions that exceed the limits of ordinary experience.

Featured artists:

Ralph Bacerra
Mark Burns
Nancy Carman
Michele Oka Doner
Jack Earl
Sergei Isupov
Michael Lucero
Louis Marak
Beverly Mayeri
Norma Minkowitz
Sunkoo Yuh
 

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A 1972 Headboard by legendary Studio Craft master and educator Daniel Jackson. Made from highly figured Curly Maple, the work’s sculptural form unfolds across the entire headboard encompassing numerous peaks, valleys, and curvilinear expressions.
 
Additionally, at the center point of the bottom of the headboard, a concealed hiding mechanism is incorporated. The cylindrical mechanism, which inserts vertically into a hollowed-out space in the headboard, rotates and locks in via a wooden pin.
 
Summing up his approach to design, Jackson said: “There is not a great difference between the two (sculpture and furniture). Furniture must fill a specific function. Then it can go on to be aesthetic. Sculpture is purely aesthetic from the beginning. What I am trying to do is marry the two.”
 
Headboard (Breast Shape), 1972
Curly Maple
62 1/2 x 3 x 18 1/2 in
 
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