Culturally Arts Collective is back with exciting new exhibitions and events that art fans across the globe are sure to love. This time, it’s Sampy Sicada in the spotlight – a British and Hong Kong fine artist and visual developer creating surrealist artwork. Here are the details of Sampy Sicada’s solo exhibition at Culturally Arts Collective and a closer overview of the artist’s creative approach.
About Sampy Sicada
Sampy Sicada is a contemporary surrealist painter based in Savannah, Georgia. Using charcoal, graphite, and color pencils, he creates surreal and photoreal portraits inspired by themes of media theory and psychology. Sicada’s creative style and visual language have been developing under the influence of the Kitsch Movement and Stuckism, culminating in the present-day symbolic storytelling with compelling emotional depth.
Works by Sampy Sicada have been exhibited around the world, including such notable art events as the London Art Biennale and the New York AD ART SHOW. They are also kept in many private collections.
Sampy Sicada’s Solo Exhibition at Culturally Arts Collective
Sampy Sicada’s exhibition, which was recently digitized by Culturally Arts Collective to be presented at the Milostka Center for Exhibitions, is titled “Liminal Portrayal.” It features a series of surreal, psychologically resonant portraits that employ the technique of photorealism to amplify the exhibition’s symbolic depth and impact. The show implements the artist’s attitude to drawing and art as activities far broader than a craft.
For Sicada, his artwork represents a lifeline for emotional expression, which evolves and changes across liminal states. The technical precision of images is carefully balanced with conceptual accessibility, thus appealing to broad audiences. The artist tries to avoid narrow stylistic categorizations and treats his artwork as a reconnection of art and human experience in its various manifestations.
Sicada’s works are known for the unique mix of psychology, communication mediums, and the politics of representation presented in his surreal portraits with thought-provoking messages. The artist also implements innovative technologies in his creative process, with many works undergoing the processes of digital compositing and planning, detailed traditional rendering, and a final fusion of digital and hand-painted elements in introspective, fractured cultural products.
Culturally Arts Collective as a Digital Art Promoter
Culturally Arts Collective aims at making art accessible to international audiences without geographical limitations. Since its foundation in 2020, the non-profit organization has already amplified the voices of 3,500+ artists from over 100 countries. Sampy Sicada’s solo exhibition is another step toward expanding the boundaries of offline art outreach and visibility, drawing the world’s attention to the work of talented contemporary artists. “Liminal Portrayal” is on view at the Milostka Center for Exhibitions through September 1, 2025.