Bringing together 12 artists from Reykjavik, Seoul, Tallahassee and other likely places, the “DREAM(land)” show at Jail gallery takes the tip of the escapist-fantasy-in-art iceberg and lets it melt all over your head. Video intermingles with drawing, hangs near sculpture, stands beside collage, each thing proposing a different Wonderland — animated, pixilated, crenellated, encrusted, whatever. Be forewarned: Less lucid dreaming than nightmaring goes on here, and it’s obvious the anxieties of the day weigh heavily on these sensitive souls. The best of these, such as Gregory Kucera, are able to turn the ominous (in his case, the last five mega-hurricanes) into the beautiful (five little whorls, suspended like icing on invisible cakes) — or, in Jim Roche’s video rant about avoiding the flu, the hilarious. But the most spectacular works are the gentlest: Leigh Salgado’s exquisitely lacey cutouts, all pretty in pink, and the haunting, endearing hand-animated video of Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir. What’s coolest about “DREAM(land),” though, is the vast stylistic and emotional range it opens up throughout the realm... More >>>