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“beinArt Surreal Art Show” Returns to Copro Gallery in 2016

Australian artist, publisher, and curator Jon Beinart is the founder of the beinArt Surreal Art Collective, a group of international artists notable for their surreal and imaginative styles. 2014 marked the reinvention of this collective which at one point featured over 500 artists- many of them will come together in a special iteration of the "beinArt Surreal Art Show" at Copro Gallery in Los Angeles this February.


Jana Brike

Australian artist, publisher, and curator Jon Beinart is the founder of the beinArt Surreal Art Collective, a group of international artists notable for their surreal and imaginative styles. 2014 marked the reinvention of this collective which at one point featured over 500 artists- many of them will come together in a special iteration of the “beinArt Surreal Art Show” at Copro Gallery in Los Angeles this February. We say special because the beinArt recently announced the beinArt Gallery and Shop, which will open in Melbourne, Australia in early 2016 thanks to raising over $67,000 earlier this month in a crowd-funded campaign. Featured here on our blog in previous years, February’s exhibition will debut new works from a roster that includes Greg “Craola” Simkins, Martin Wittfooth, Travis Louie, Marco Mazzoni, David Stoupakis, Chris Mars, Chet Zar, Dan May, Esao Andrews, Josh Keyes, Casey Weldon, Henrik Aa. Uldalen, Cam de Leon, John Brophy, Pamela Wilson, Naoto Hattori, Peter Gric, Kikyz1313, Brian Viveros, Scott G. Brooks, Jana Brike, Hannah Faith Yata, Jean Labourdette, Scott Scheidly, Matt Dangler, and many others. Get an early preview of the show below, courtesy of beinArt.

The “beinArt Surreal Art Show” will return to Corpo Gallery on February 20th, 2016 and will be on view through March 12th, 2016.


Chris Mars


Carrie Ann Baade


Hannah Faith Yata


Jeff Christensen


John Brosio


Mark Gleason


José Luis López Galván


José Luis López Galván


Sandra Yagi


Rose Freymuth-Frazier


Steven Kenny


Peter Gric


Heidi Taillefer


Greg Craola Simkins


Barnaby Whitfield

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