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“Depth of Field” explores the interaction between physical and mental space. Featuring new works by Sheila Nicolin, Jackson E. Joyce and Michael Polakowski, this show challenges the nature of black-and-white reality versus full-color experiences through a surrealist lens. Via brightly-colored and unsettlingly off-kilter images of the everyday, all three painters create emotive works that question the division between presence and dissociation; distraction and connection; day-dreaming and memory.

Sheila Nicolin is a Detroit-based painter and 2018 graduate from CCS with an emphasis on …