Arts KC Encounters are your backstage pass to Kansas City’s vibrant arts community! For just $10, you get a behind-the-scenes look at Kansas City artist, Nicolas Gadbois' current solo show, "The Real Surreal," an exhibition and partnership with the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Beer, wine and food will be provided.

ArtsKC INSIDERS can attend events for FREE with their discount code. We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

"NICOLAS GADBOIS’s surreal landscapes are taken from scenes in everyday life that have a quality that is strange or otherworldly. For a number of first wave surrealist painters, emptiness was a significant feature in the art. De Chirico and Dali both drew heavily from scenes expressing existential void. Gadbois’s work focuses on the altered landscape and cultural emptiness. He takes photographs that are the basis for the paintings, focusing on dead malls, places left behind, and blank billboards. The colors in his work are pushed to reference emotional states, climate change, nuclear reality, and artificial life. Rather than inventing surrealistic scenes in an illustrative way he paints scenes from real life that already appear surreal."

Follow the link below to purchase tickets:
https://artskc.org/encounter/