08/19/2026
CMAY GALLERY - 5828 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
ESCAPE /ɪˈskeɪp/
TO GET AWAY FROM A PLACE WERE ONE IS BEING HELD OR KEPT
July 18 – August 22, 2026
ANDY SUMMERS, ANTHONY FRIEDKIN, ARTHUR BARRETT, BRIAN C. MOSS, BRIAN PAEPER, CECILIA MINIUCCHI, CHEN HUA, CHERIE BENNER DAVIS, CYNTHIA MINET, DAVID EDDINGTON, DOMENICO LOMUTO, DONNIE MOLLS, DOUGLAS MEYER, ELENA KARENINA, ELLEN FRIEDLANDER, ERIN DUNN, FONJE DE VRE, FRANCESCA BIFULCO, GARY WOOD, GRANT MUDFORD, GREG ROSE, HILARY BAKER, IRENE DE BOER, JEREMY KIDD, JODY ZELLEN, KATHERINE KESEY, KELLY BERG, LAURA BALL, LISA ADAMS, LUCAS REINER, LUIGA MARTELLONI, MICHAEL PIERZYNSKI, NATHAN REDWOOD, PAUL PAIEMENT, PAUL SILKOWSKI, PIERRE LE BLOND, ROBERT DEAN, ROBERT LANDAU, ROBERT MACK, ROD BAER, SENON WILLIAMS, TIM EBNER, WARREN SMITH
Los Angeles, CA — CMAY Gallery is pleased to announce ESCAPE, an exhibition bringing together over 40 contemporary artists whose works engage three enduring artistic themes: landscape, seascape, and cityscape.
To escape suggests release, movement, and the possibility of entering another condition of being. In art, escape does not necessarily mean flight from the world. More often, it offers an invitation to enter another way of seeing it.
The idea of escaping one’s own reality into the realm of the artist is a powerful and longstanding part of artistic practice. For thousands of years, artists have depicted the landscape as a way to transport viewers beyond the immediate facts of daily life. Over time, this impulse expanded into related traditions of seascape and cityscape. Each of these genres has changed dramatically in style, subject, and intention, yet all have consistently offered viewers a passage into another realm of perception.
