Culturally Arts Collective is back with a new virtual art exhibition, titled “Reflections of a Greater Realm.” Held at the Milotska Center for Exhibitions, it features 37 hand-picked works by 25 talented contemporary artists, offering a rich, colorful spectacle at the intersection of various artistic methods and traditions.
According to the exhibition’s curator, Pablo Peltier, art history has long been too fixated on representing the objective physical world, but its later advancements have made art more independent from the utilitarian goals and purposes. In “Reflections of a Greater Realm,” artists offer their creative interpretations of viewing the world through the mirror of art and make the threshold between the real and the surreal less clear-cut.
Reflections of a Greater Realm: Fusion of Methods and Traditions
The exhibition is organized under the curatorship of Isabelle Brett. It represents a roster of artworks from creatives working at the intersection of methods and traditions, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, glitter, digital photo collages, wood, glass, and other art media. Participating artists offer their personal creative revisions of foundational elements of Rococo, Baroque, and Surrealism to give voice to the unknown and unheard. Their primary tool is sensibility, which helps them confront ambiguity and instability in art. The Executive Director of the exhibition is Isabell Sliwinski.
“Reflections of a Greater Realm” features artwork by Steve Jensen, a contemporary American artist, boat builder, and Scandinavian fisherman, who explores the theme of symbolic journeys into the unknown through art. Ronis Varlaam’s work from his “Memory and Desire” series urges viewers to look through the monochrome color covers to recover memories underneath. Victoria Koursaros’ oil on wood paintings “Galene” (2025), “Tiepolo Dancer” (2024), and “Passing Promenade” (2024), created in the best tradition of Baroque and Rococo art, bring the viewers back to the times of Old Masters, invoking the classical art aesthetics.
Another notable participant of the exhibition is Lawrence Aarons, an American contemporary painter known for sensitive and varied portrait styles. Aarons experiments with creative methods and targets the depths of human emotion with his art. Among other artists are Jason Lincoln Jeffers with cosmic landscapes, Charlene Huang with her contemporary reinterpretations of Rococo paintings, and Yuqing Wu, a Surrealist painter with a unique visual language.
The exhibition started on March 5, 2026, and is available for viewing on the official website of Culturally Arts Collective until May 2026.