First friday exhibitions

Our fourth exhibition of 2025, Creatures: Mythical to Mundane, features an eclectic menagerie plucked from fiction, reality, and dreams.

Today, NOT REAL ART Editor-in-Chief and Curator Morgan Laurens joins the podcast to share the guidebook to our 2025 First Friday Exhibitions schedule.

In our February 2025 exhibition, explore Pantone’s Color of the Year, Mocha Mousse, through works that embody intimacy, indulgence, and quiet contempl...

Our first exhibition of 2025, Out of Body, features diverse interpretations of the human figure, revealing the myths and secrets beneath the surface.

An update on our 2025 First Friday Exhibitions schedule.

Our tenth exhibition of 2024, ‘Surrealist Ball,’ traces threads of Surrealism in contemporary art a century after André Breton’s groundbreaking manife...

Our sixth exhibition of 2024, Soul Meets Body, explores the world of wearable art, which celebrates craft and acknowledges its close relationship with...

Our fifth exhibition of 2024, The Metamorphosis, explores the role of allegory in art through contemporary reinterpretations of history, politics, and...

Our third exhibition of 2024, ‘About Books,’ celebrates the enduring impact of documents, manuscripts, and zines in an era of censorship and book bann...

Our first exhibition of 2024, Hollywood Land, salutes the 100th anniversary of the Hollywood Sign and celebrates the artists basking in its proverbial...

Our First Friday Exhibitions series explores the ideas and philosophies close to our community’s heart. Today, we’re proud to announce our 2024 exhibi...

Our 10th exhibition of the year, Down a Long, Dark Corridor, reinterprets the classic tropes of Gothic horror—hysteria, paranoia, and eroticism—throug...