This show opens Friday, Nov. 30, with a reception from 6-9 p.m.

Matthew Lindhardt

Father and son artists Matthew and Patrick Lindhardt share an obsession with exploring places that are paradoxically mundane and fantastical at the same time. (They just reach their destinations in very different ways.)

Patrick, a master printer and professor at Ringling College of Art and Design, crafts careful drawings and prints that spin yarns about an imaginary place not unlike the Minnesota of his youth. The narratives are alternately prosaic, puzzling, apocalyptic, and disjointed—but they’re always evocatively illustrated and often downright entertaining.

Patrick Lindhardt

Matthew’s work (shown at the top of the post) is new to me, so I’m looking forward to this exhibit. From what I’ve seen, he too captures dream-like experiences a dimension or two removed from reality—but through photography.

Escapes: Matthew and Patrick Lindhardt
Runs Nov. 30 through Dec. 29
C. Emerson Fine Arts
909 Central Ave., St. Petersburg
727-898-6068
c-emersonfinearts.com