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The Imaginarium:
Five Portals of Surrealism
Group Art Show
Opens: March 6th | 6:00pm
Closes: March 26th | 5:00pm
SBDAC’s Grand Atrium
Entry: Donations
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Overview
Step into the strange, the symbolic, and the sublime. The Imaginarium: 5 Portals of Surrealism transforms the Grand Atrium of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center into a dreamscape of imagination and mystery. Opening on March 6, 2026, this immersive exhibition gathers 5 of Southwest Florida’s finest surreal artists, each offering a unique visual portal into the subconscious mind.
From haunting figures to fantastical realms, each artist builds a world where reason blurs and reality becomes fluid. The Imaginarium invites viewers to explore these portals, five distinct bodies of work that stir memory, emotion, and myth.
The Imaginarium is not merely an exhibition, it’s a collective descent into the subconscious. These five artists act as guides through realms of illusion, symbolism, and raw emotion. Whether poetic, provocative, or otherworldly, each portal offers a passage into the unknown, a surreal celebration of imagination unleashed.
Featured Artists
Danielle Branchaud
Danielle Branchaud’s paintings delve into the human psyche with startling intimacy. Her figures often emerge from shadowy, dreamlike environments—fragmented, vulnerable, and emotionally raw. With a masterful balance of realism and distortion, Branchaud’s work explores themes of identity, mortality, and inner conflict, drawing viewers into an emotional dialogue that lingers long after.
https://dbranchaudart.com/
Winnie Purple
With a whimsical palette and a surreal pop-art aesthetic, Winnie Purple creates vivid dreamscapes where animals, symbols, and storybook figures converge. Her work is a celebration of color and curiosity—where the childlike meets the philosophical. Winnie’s playful approach belies deeper commentary on the absurdities of modern life, femininity, and the fractured world of dreams.
https://www.instagram.com/
Israel Alpizar
Known for his intricately layered compositions and symbolic visual language, Israel Alpizar constructs painterly portals into alternate realities. Drawing from myth, science fiction, and spiritual iconography, Alpizar’s work pulses with energy and mysticism. His use of form and detail creates dreamlike spaces that evoke both wonder and unease—a dance between harmony and chaos.
https://www.israelalpizar.com/
https://www.instagram.com/Aye_
Kathleen Kinkopf
Kathleen Kinkopf’s surreal paintings blend the organic with the fantastic, inviting viewers into worlds that feel at once otherworldly and deeply personal. Her work often references nature, transformation, and the divine feminine, rendered through intricate textures and rich, atmospheric colors. Kinkopf’s art is meditative and mysterious—a visual invocation of the soul’s hidden landscapes.
https://www.instagram.com/
David Acevedo
I seek to create a fantasy landscape where my memories and history can live in peace. I try to learn from myself with every brush stroke and allow my mind to wander the state of subconsciousness that I fall into during my creative process. The color palette I utilize varies from time to time because of an ever-changing mind that dictates it. Never one to follow recipes, I create my own mixture of mediums until I feel content.
The artwork I produce has been mislabeled under a variety of styles, but I have found that descriptive labels push me to stay within the limits of a movement and that counteracts with my muses. I humbly admit traveling the journey of experimentation and I continue the constant search for individualism within my body of work.
The materials I utilize to create my paintings are usually photographs, magazine cut-outs, acrylic paints, gesso, inks, pencils, dry and oil pastels, oils, enamels, colored markers and pens; applied to cotton rag paper or stretched canvas. A particular painting of mine could have all of these mediums or as little as one; it all depends on my vision at the moment and most importantly, my mood.
I believe that we are all artists in one way or another. It just so happens that some of us are cursed with a constant and overwhelming need for creativity while others find a way to ignore such urges. Talent is not necessarily what makes the artist; passion and perseverance does.
Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in 1975.
Acevedo’s pictorial work is recognizable by the bold colors, textures, and compositions. Acevedo has created imagery attributed to his silent resistance to conformity and established stereotypes and draws from his roots in Puerto Rico and social themes.
His pictorial work is recognizable by the bold colors, textures, and complex compositions. He has created darker imagery attributed to his silent resistance to conformity and established stereotypes. A notable part of his depictions is the hidden message or symbols in his work, drawing the viewer into each piece and creating intrigue. The work Acevedo produces ranges from vibrant Pop-like, expressionistic, and abstract.
Acevedo’s reach has been extended by numerous featured articles in magazines such as Gulfshorelife, the Fort Myers Magazine, Happenings Magazine, the Fort Myers News-Press, D’Latinos Magazine, and others.
He has exhibited in the United States, Spain, and China (Hong Kong). Winning the title of Visual Artist of the Year in 2009 and a Gulfshore Life Magazine FACE Award in 2016 for his community work in diversity and inclusion.
Community Activism
After moving to Southwest Florida in 2000, Acevedo established a reputation as one of the primary artists in the community winning the title of Visual Artist of the Year in 2009 and the Gulfshore Life Magazine FACE Award in 2016 for his community work in diversity and inclusion.
His first professional artist studio opened in 2006, later transforming into a pioneering art gallery for artists called DAAS. It was after opening the first DAAS Gallery that he co-founded the popular Fort Myers Art Walk (2008), then serving in the core committee until 2012.
Acevedo served in the Fort Myers Public Arts Committee from 2011 to 2012 as well. From 2013 to 2020, he contributed as Arts Editor for TOTI Media INC, publishing numerous articles for their five local and international publications.
@acevedostudio
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