Surreal student art, figure's back bound uniformly with twine

The Hillsborough Student Surrealist Art Exhibit

February 20, 2009 – March 22, 2009

Initiated in 1992, this annual art exhibit presents work by middle and high school students whom we invite to explore ideas and visions similar to those explored by Salvador Dalí and the surrealists.

Detail from Salvador Dali's painting "Portrait of my Dead Brother"

Dalí, Freud and Surrealism

February 20, 2009 – November 8, 2009

The exhibit spans Dalí’s entire career, beginning with his earlier work where his concern with landscape and family portraits precedes the influence of Freud and Surrealism.

Photograph of artist Wilfredo Lam standing beside artworks

Wilfredo Lam in North America

October 3, 2008 – January 11, 2009

Lam contributed a non-European Afro-Cuban voice to Western art, synthesizing Cubism, Surrealism, “primitivism,” Négritude, Afro-Cuban history, and the African-derived Santeria religion.

Detail from Salvador Dali's painting "Memory of the Child-Woman"

Myth in Dalí’s Art

October 3, 2008 – February 15, 2009

Seeing how Freud drew on his knowledge of classical mythology in his psychoanalytic theories, Dalí constructed his own artistic identity by employing his understanding of these myths and symbols in his art and writing.

Detail from Salvador Dali's painting "Daddy Longlegs of the Evening-Hope!"

THE FINE ART OF COLLECTING DALÍ

June 22, 2008 – January 1, 2008

This exhibit examines the story of the our paintings through the metriculously assebled archive of the Morses, from the hands of the artist to their home at The Dalí.