New Surrealism

The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting

Robert Zeller

New Surrealism combines an art historical overview of Surrealism with a selection of influential contemporary artists working in the art movement today

The Surrealist movement is over a hundred years old, but its themes and compositional techniques are continually reinvented and reinvigorated. Alongside a brief history of Surrealism and a survey of important contemporary artists, this book features a section of studio visits with 14 contemporary artists to show how they create their Surrealist compositions. The book’s author, Robert Zeller, is one of the most accomplished figurative artists and instructors working today. With its combination of art history, contemporary survey, studio visits, and advanced art instruction, New Surrealism is a unique and fresh overview of this vitally important art movement.

Robert Zeller is a visual artist and writer who received a BFA from a joint program of the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Following his bestselling The Figurative Artist’s Handbook (2017), New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting is his second book published by Monacelli Studio. He contributed a chapter about Surrealist photography to the exhibition catalogue Photography: Real and Imagined (2024), profiling the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, and has also written for The Brooklyn Rail and other influential art periodicals and blogs. In 2009, he founded The Teaching Studios of Art, an in-person and online art school devoted to instruction in figurative art. Zeller maintains a studio practice in Brooklyn, New York, and is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He has curated group exhibitions and shown his own work at galleries in the United States and

The leading contemporary Surrealist artists featured are: Eva Juszkiewicz, Inka Essenhigh, Lars Elling, Adrian Ghenie, Glenn Brown, Rosa Loy, Verne Dawson, Lola Gil, Fabrizio Arrieta, Miles Johnston, Egon May, Jessie Makinson, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Abigail Tulis, Arghavan Khosravi, Gretchen Sherer, Van Hanos, Tim Kent, Phil Hale, Nicola Verlato, Robert Ryan, Shinji Himeno, Shih Yung Lin, Michael Triegel, Lenz Geerk, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Dan Herschlein,

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Allesandro Keegan, Laura Krifka, Jamie Adams, Kurt Kauper, Vincent Desiderio, Ginny Casey, Matt Hansel, Anna Weyant, Adam Miller, Martin Wittfooth, Maria Kreyn, Carl Dobsky, Alessandro Bianchi Sicioldr, and Robert Zeller

With its singular combination of art history, contemporary survey, and art instruction, this is an unprecedented, thoroughgoing overview of the subject

Surrealist art is enjoying a particular renaissance of relevance, cachet, and popularity with recent major exhibitions at the MoMA, The Met, and other important museums and galleries around the world - from top left, clockwise to centre: Martin Wittfooth, Pandora, 2018: Alessandro Bianchi Sciodr, Il Sonno 2020; Ginny Casey, Blind Bluff, 2019; Matt Hansell, Ship of Fools 2018; Verne Dawson, Little Red Riding Hood, 2006; Inka Essenhigh, Treasure Hunt, 2017; Jamie Adams, Drive-In Dancers 2018

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