Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Invincible Summer
June 25 - August 15, 2026
Theodora Allen, Jonathan Baldock, Sophie Becker, Angela China, Margaret Curtis, Kirsten Deirup, Dalton Gata, Hydeon, Ryan Johnson, Tamara Kostianovsky, Gina Litherland, Mickey Lee, Sarah Theresa Lee, Joshua Petker, Clare Rojas, Alice Tippit, Robert Zehnder
Performance by Sophie Becker: July 16, 2026 | 6:30pm
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to present Invincible Summer, a group exhibition exploring the contemporary resurgence of surrealist tendencies. Titled after Albert Camus’ oft-cited reflection, “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer,” the exhibition investigates the renewed prominence of surrealism as a means of grappling with the instability of our increasingly complex psychological and political landscape.
The contemporary experience is shaped by forces that often remain difficult to visualize—truth itself feels contested and shaky. Political polarization, ecological crisis, technological acceleration, algorithmic systems, economic precarity, and the proliferation of mediated realities have fundamentally altered our relationship to the world and to one another. Faced with conditions that frequently exceed the limits of rational explanation, many artists have turned toward forms of image-making that embrace ambiguity, intuition, dream logic, fragmentation, and associative thinking. In these works, reality is neither abandoned nor escaped. Instead, it is refracted, distorted, and reassembled into new configurations capable of expressing experiences that conventional representation struggles to contain.
