Exhibitions
Gordon Onslow Ford, Propaganda for Love, 1940, oil on canvas. Currently on loan from the Lucid Art Foundation Permanent Collection to the Surréalisme exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, September 4, 2024 - January 13, 2025.
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Contemporary Exhibitions
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2022 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - This is an online Lucid Art Residency Exhibition group show of the 2022 residency artists. This artists-in-residence exhibition includes work by: Renée Rhodes, Julia Hawkins, Adrien Segal, Patrick Cabry, Marisha Farnsworth, Barry Underwood, Christina Seely, Rachelle Reichert, and Bonnie Peterson.
2021 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - This is an online Lucid Art Residency Exhibition group show of the 2021 residency artists. This artists-in-residence exhibition includes work by: Shannon Gray, Dewey Crumpler, Mia Pixley, Lindsey Nobel, Madeline Nieto Hope, and Peter de Swart.
Alumni Artists-in-Residence Exhibition: Group 4
Our Alumni Artist Residency exhibition was held online October 1, 2020 – February 4, 2021. The show is divided into 4 groups. The Group 4 artists are: Michele Foyer, Miguel Arzabe, Benjamin Britton, Kari Stoltenberg, Nicole Buffett, Teresa Kalnoskas, Babette Wight, Neil Enggist, Chad Moore, Elizabeth Betsy Kellas, Zen Du, Toni Gentilli, Jeanne Jesse, David Burke, and David Graves.
Alumni Artists-in-Residence Exhibition: Group 3
Our Alumni Artist Residency exhibition was held online October 1, 2020 – February 4, 2021. The show is divided into 4 groups. The Group 3 artists are: Alan Montgomery, Jennie Braman, Jenna Didier, Zhiyuan Wang, Theodora Varnay Jones, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Glen Carter, Theresa Antonellis, Victoria May, Ellie Fritz, Candace Loheed, Einat Imber, Eva Bovenzi, Lynne Riding, Rachel Kaye, Carolin Rechberg, Brooke Holve, Jay Nelson, Amy Ho, Kathy Sirico, and Frederik Carbon.
Alumni Artists-in-Residence Exhibition: Group 2
Our Alumni Artist Residency exhibition was held online October 1, 2020 – February 4, 2021. The show is divided into 4 groups. The Group 2 artists are: Airiel Mulvaney, Catherine Richardson, Jo Margolis, Cindy Cleary, David Bailey, David King, Denise Townsend, Hadley Radt, Jacob Tillman, Joel Sokolov, Katrien Vermeire, Mikey Kelly, Patrick Keesey, Tina Hejtmanek, Tobias Tovera, Tyrell Collins, Yulia Pinkusevich, and Zoe Barry.
Alumni Artists-in-Residence Exhibition: Group 1
Our Alumni Artist Residency exhibition was held online October 1, 2020 – February 4, 2021. The show is divided into 4 groups. The Group 1 artists are: Rachelle Reichert, Vera Ximenes, Julia Goodman, Mari Andrews, T.C. Moore, Adrien Segal, Dimitra Skandali, Morgan MacLean, Jane Ingram Allen, Hannah Alex-Glasser, Max Lamb, and Jacqueline Mallegni.
2019 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - A group show of the artists in the Lucid Art Residency Exhibition was initially held online May 4 - September 30, 2020. The 2019 artists-in-residence exhibition includes work by: Theresa Antonellis, Zoe Barry, Jennie Braman, David Burke, Tyrell Collins, David Graves, Alan Montgomery, Hadley Radt, and Tobias Tovera.
2018 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - A group show of the artists in the Lucid Art Residency Exhibition was held May 10 - June 16, 2019, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California. This show included work made by the following 2018 artists-in-residence: Joan Perlman, Neil Enggist, Tanja Geis, Chad Moore, Miguel Arzabe, Yulia Pinkusevich, Morgan MacLean, Klea McKenna, Eva Bovenzi, and Joel Sokolov.
Peter de Swart: Numinous: Sculptures from the Light Series - An exhibition of Inverness artist Peter de Swart’s sculptures held October 14, 2018 – December 21, 2019, Lucid Art Foundation. For more information and to purchase the exhibition catalogue, visit our bookstore here.
Image: Slit, 2008.
2017 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - A group show of the artists in the Lucid Art Residency Exhibition held April 13 - May 20, 2018, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California. This show included work made by the following 2017 artists-in-residence: Teresa Kalnoskas, Jo Margolis, Kathy Sirico, Rachelle Reichert, Grace Munakata, Petra Soesemann, Mary Robinson, Lawrence LaBianca, Mikey Kelly, and David Bailey.
2016 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - A group show of the artists in the Lucid Art Residency Exhibition held April 7 - May 14, 2017, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California. This show included work made by the following 2016 artists-in-residence: Marya Krogstad, Michele Foyer, Tina Hejtmanek, Carolin Rechberg, Elizabeth Kellas, Victoria May, Einat Imber, Glenn Carter, and Zhiyuan Wang.
Bruno Blunk Show - An exhibition of Inverness artist Bruno Blunk (son of JB Blunk) held February 25 - May 15, 2017, Lucid Art Foundation. This show was a retrospective of Blunk’s paintings and sculpture cosponsored by the estate of JB Blunk.
2015 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - A group show of 10 artists in the Lucid Art Residency Exhibition held April 1 - May 8, 2016, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California. This show included work made by the following 2015 artists-in-residence: Mari Andrews, Sophio Dixon Dillo, Toni Gentilli, Kimberley D'Adamo Green, Brooke Holve, Theodora Varnay Jones, Patrick Keesey, Dorothy Nissen, Paolo Salvagione, and Denise Townsend.
2014 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - A group show of 10 artists in the Lucid Art Residency Exhibition held March 20 - April 26, 2015, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California. This annual group exhibition included work made by the following 2014 artists-in-residence: Zen Du, Amy Ho, Jenifer Kent, Catherine Richardson, Chokyiosel Rinpoche, Babette Wight, Dimitra Skandali, Elizabeth Thorp, Katrien Vermeire, and Vera Ximenes.
2013 Lucid Art Residency Exhibition - A group show of 11 artists in the Lucid Art Residency 2012-2013 Exhibition held December 6, 2013 - January 12, 2014, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, California. This annual group exhibition included work made by the following 2012-2013 artists-in-residence: Jane Ingram Allen, Cindy Cleary, Jeanne Jesse, David King, Candace Loheed, Jacqueline Mallegni, t.c. moore, Airiel Mulvaney, Adrien Segal, Kari Stoltenberg, and Chelsea Wills.
Luminous Visions, Paintings by Jack Wright - An exhibition of Inverness artist, Jack Wright. Exhibition: October 2013 - March 2014, Lucid Art Foundation. This show was a retrospective of Wright’s paintings and also included a sampling of sculpture and ceramics by his wife, Patty Wright.
Image: Jack Wright, Group of Five, 1984. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Inner Landscapes: Paintings by Al Longo - An exhibition of work by artist Al Longo. Exhibition: April 13 - July 12, 2012, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Metamorphosis #10.
FIRST MATTER: Paintings and drawings by Nicole Buffet - An exhibition of work by artist Nicole Buffet. Exhibition: January 13 – April 12, 2012, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Sentiment/Sediment, 2011.
Errant Horizons, Catherine Richardson - An exhibition of paintings by artist Catherine Richardson. Exhibition: October 14, 2011 - January 12, 2012, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Agents of Dissolve, 2011.
NOETIC VIEWS: Sense of place through light and wonder - An exhibition of photographs by artist Paolo Scoglio. Exhibition: July 9 - October 12, 2011, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Early Morning Fog.
NUMINOUS: Paintings by Yari Ostovany - An exhibition of work by artist Yari Ostovany. Exhibition: April 8 - July 4, 2011, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Conference of the Birds (Nr. 25), 1998.
PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Exploring the Land of Numinal Archetypes - An exhibition of paintings by artist Doreen Coyne. Exhibition: January 13 – March 30, 2011, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Parallel Universe #1, 2006.
Artists of Bishop Pine Preserve - An exhibition of work by the artists of the Bishop Pine Preserve: Jacqueline Johnson & Gordon Onslow Ford (cofounders of Bishop Pine Preserve), John Anderson, J.B. Blunk, Bruno Blunk, Rufus Blunk & Family, Fariba Bogzaran, Daniel Deslauriers, Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Tim Graveson, Zea Morvitz, and Mariah Nielson. Exhibition: November 14, 2010 - January 12, 2011, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Arts and Ecology: Three Views on the Natural - An exhibition of works by Cindy Cleary, Miriam Fagan, and Judi Pettite. Exhibition: August 18 - October 31, 2010, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Details of works (from left to right) by Fagan, Cleary, Petite.
The Voyager: Earth and Space - An exhibition of three monumental paintings by artist Gordon Onslow Ford. Exhibition: May 1 - July 15, 2010, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Photo: Nata Piaskowski (1983).
TRANSLUCENT BEINGS: From Above and Below the Equator - An exhibition of paintings by artist Toni Littlejohn. Exhibition: January 2 - March 31, 2010, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Gathering Light, 2009.
White Passages V Inner Journey - An exhibition of paintings by artist Chiyomi Longo. Exhibition: October 1- December 30, 2009, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: White Passages #55.
Sacred Beauty of the Inner and Outer World - An exhibition of photographs by artists Sondra Barrett and San Hoffman. Exhibition: June 15 - September 20, 2009, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Details of works (from left to right) by Barrett and Hoffman.
Symphony of Colors - An exhibition of paintings by artist Fritz Rauh. Exhibition: April 4 - May 31, 2009, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Realms of Being - An exhibition of paintings by artist Jeremy Morgan. Exhibition: November 22, 2008 - March 31, 2009, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California.
Image: Of Then, 2008.
Historical Exhibitions
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Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100
November 8, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, The Circuit of the Light Knight Through the Dark Queen, 1942. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Surréalisme
September 4, 2024 - January 13, 2025
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Propaganda for Love, 1940. Collection of Lucid Art Foundation.
Gordon Onslow Ford and JB Blunk
November 13, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Blunk Space Gallery, Point Reyes, California
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Lunelipse Series, 1951. Private Collection.
Tertium Organum: Traversing Space
August 20-October 15, 2022
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Untitled, 1946. Collection of Lucid Art Foundation.
Surrealism Beyond Borders
February 24 – August 29, 2022
Tate Modern, London, England
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, A Present for the Past, 1942. Collection of Tate Modern, London, England.
Surrealism in American Art, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Ville de Marseille, France, May 11 - September 26, 2021.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Temptations of the Painter, 1941. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Wolfgang Paalen (1905–1959): The Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico - Lower Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria - October 3, 2019 – January 19, 2020.
Image: Wolfgang Paalen, Space Unbound, 1941. Private Collection.
The Surrealist Revolution in America - Napa Valley Museum, July 27 - October 27, 2019.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Without Bounds, 1939. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Surrealism in Mexico - Di Donna Galleries, April 25 – June 28, 2019.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Luminous Land (The), 1943. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo - Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA), April 28 - June 10, 2018 and at the Bolinas Museum January 12 - March 17, 2019. For more information and to purchase the exhibition publication, visit our bookstore here.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Forest Go Round (detail), 1951. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910–1950 - Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 25, 2016 - January 8, 2017.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Marriage (The), 1944. Private Collection.
I Had an Interesting French Artist to See Me This Summer: Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen in British Columbia - Vancouver Art Gallery, July 1 - November 13, 2016; organized by Vancouver Art Gallery.
Image: Wolfgang Paalen, Messengers from the Three Poles, 1949. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), January 29 – May 6, 2012; Musée national des beaux-arts, Quebec, June - September 2012; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico, September 2012 - January, 2013.
Image: Adaline Kent, Journey by Moon, 1951. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Matta: Centenario 11-11-11 – Cultural Center Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile, November 11, 2011 – February 2012.
Image: Roberto Matta, Drawing for Invasion of the Night, 1940. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, May 27 - October 2, 2011.
Image: Wolfgang Paalen, Voyage Totemique, 1937. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.
Drifts and Derivations. Experiences, Journeys and Morphologies - Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, May 5 - August 23, 2010.
Image: Roberto Matta, Personnages and Automobile, 1938. Private Collection.
Threshold of a New Art - Artwork of the 1950’s: A Selection from the Lucid Art Foundation Collection - California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, February 6 - March 31, 2006, curated by Fariba Bogzaran.
Image: Gordon Onslow Ford, Walking Woods, 1955. Gordon Onslow Ford Collection, Lucid Art Foundation.