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Artists are invited to exhibit works that explore absurdity, the space between meaning and meaninglessness, humor, and the unexpected turn of the ordinary.
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Get matched →The November Galleries Opening Reception features three distinct exhibitions: "That’s Absurd", a group show, "Night Swim" by Zan Lombardo in the Foulds Theater Gallery, and "Nude Works" by students of Life Drawing Lounge and Instructed Life Drawing in the Member Gallery.
10091 McGregor Blvd. Fort Myers, FL 33919 United States
This exhibition brings together artists who embrace the space between meaning and meaninglessness, allowing for seriousness to meet humor and the ordinary to take an unexpected turn. The works challenge our instinct to make sense of what we see, inviting us instead to linger in the uncertain, contradictory, and bizarre. Through surreal imagery, exaggerated forms, disrupted realities, playful gestures, and inconclusive narratives, these artists approach the absurd as both nonsense and as a way of looking more closely at the world. Here, the illogical encourages discomfort to coexist with delight because the things that make the least sense may sometimes say the most. That’s Absurd celebrates unconventional thinking and the freedom to question, reinterpret, and simply wonder. These works ask us to loosen our grip on certainty and consider what might emerge when we stop searching for the answer—and allow the absurd to speak for itself.
Zan Lombardo's installation, "Night Swim," invites viewers to imagine standing on a dock at night, looking down at fish swimming up to underwater lights. For those who want to dive deeper, the artist explains her daily awareness swings widely between the wild beauty of our world and sadness about how we treat it. Her original plan for a labyrinth of scrolls alternating beauty and despair evolved into forward paths leading viewers to physical and aesthetic sustenance. The continuous scrolls have been divided into sections meant to encourage and remind viewers of the wild beauty of our world and to treat it as such.
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This exhibition celebrates figure studies created from direct observation of the human form by students from Instructed Life Drawing and Life Drawing Lounge classes. Instructed Life Drawing emphasizes seeing beyond simple representation through gesture, structure, and form under the guidance of artist Francesco Gillia. Life Drawing Lounge offers a relaxed, uninstructed studio environment where artists develop skills through extended poses and personal exploration under the guidance of artist Juli Bobman. Together, these drawings demonstrate the enduring value of life drawing as both a foundational artistic practice and a deeply personal form of expression.
The featured artwork is “Eclipse” by Susan Solomon.