Seimandi & Leprieur

Seimandi & Leprieur International contemporary art gallery
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Final days ✨Hunt Slonem exhibition.Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the works in person.On view through June 7 i...
06/02/2026

Final days ✨
Hunt Slonem exhibition.
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the works in person.
On view through June 7 in Santa Barbara.

05/27/2026

Merci, friends!

Thank you all for joining us for such a wonderful opening night. We had an amazing evening sharing this special moment with you and with Hunt Slonem.

The exhibition is on view through early June, we invite you to discover the works in person at the gallery.

On view May 15 – June 7
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Special thanks to Rideauvineyard and Bree'osh for helping make the evening so special.

Photography by .slava

Installation view of Shapes of Surrealism at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery in Santa Barbara. Shapes of Surrealism brings t...
04/09/2026

Installation view of Shapes of Surrealism at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery in Santa Barbara.

Shapes of Surrealism brings together works by Ricardo Ozier-Lafontaine, Pierre Roy-Camille, Cynthia James, Karine Taïlamé, Annabel Guerrero, and Dora Vital.

Shapes of Surrealism explores surrealism as a shifting territory rather than a fixed definition, an unstable space where images emerge from instinct, illusion, memory, and dream, and where the familiar quietly slips into the strange.

This approach finds its most literal expression in the work of Ricardo Ozier-Lafontaine, the only artist in the exhibition to fully align with surrealism in its historical sense. Through automatic drawing and trance-like processes, his hybrid figures surface from the unconscious as black-and-white inner landscapes.

The work of Pierre Roy-Camille unfolds at the threshold between reality and imagination. Defining himself as an illusionist, he constructs images like mirages, where nothing is ever fully fixed and everything seems caught in a state of emergence or disappearance. In Grills, what initially appears almost photographic reveals, upon closer inspection, a meticulous hand-embroidered surface (an artisanal technique the artist learned in India) introducing doubt and instability into the act of looking.

With Cynthia James, strangeness takes the form of imagined vegetation where jungle and aquatic worlds merge, punctuated by the recurring presence of fluorescent jellyfish, luminous apparitions suspended between fascination and reverie.

Dream imagery resurfaces in Ultimes Limbes, a photographic series by Annabel Guerrero created in the late 1980s, exploring transparency and feminine presence, as well as in Vésuve, a monumental work by Karine Taïlamé, presented here for the first time and born from fragments of memory rather than narrative. Recent drawings by Dora Vital extend this drift, allowing forms to overflow and recombine into images reminiscent of Rorschach stains.

Between surrealism in its strict sense and a broader feeling of unreality, the exhibition questions less a definition than a state of being, one shaped by illusion, the unconscious, and inner landscapes.

03/26/2026

SAVE THE DATE
We are honored to announce a special event with Hunt Slonem, one of the most celebrated American painters of his generation.
To mark the beginning of a new collaboration with the gallery, leading to a solo exhibition in 2027, the artist will be in Santa Barbara for one day only for a special appearance and book signing.

📍 SEIMANDI & LEPRIEUR Gallery
33 W Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara

📅 Friday, May 15

Collectors and friends of the gallery are warmly invited to join us for this special moment.
A selection of the artist’s iconic bunnies and butterflies will be available.

RSVP: [email protected]

More details coming soon.

03/10/2026

So much fun celebrating the opening of Shapes of Surrealism at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery!
Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate this new exhibition with us and to our six incredible artists.
Special thanks to Drink Ysidro () and for sponsoring the evening everyone loved, and to Ana & Joe for the beautiful guitar and vocals. 🎶

Suspended between fascination and reverie, James presents us with this recurring presence of luminous apparitions.On vie...
03/01/2026

Suspended between fascination and reverie, James presents us with this recurring presence of luminous apparitions.

On view in Shapes of Surrealism, opening March 5 at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery.

Exploring transparency and feminine presence, Guerrero breaks the fourth wall, capturing our attention. On view in Shape...
02/25/2026

Exploring transparency and feminine presence, Guerrero breaks the fourth wall, capturing our attention.
On view in Shapes of Surrealism, opening March 5 at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery.

02/21/2026

Tomorrow is the last day of Jardin Nocturne by Dora Vital, curated by Jen Huang Bogan.
We’ve loved every minute of this show, thank you to all the Santa Barbara art lovers who came by and shared it with us.
More coming soon. Stay tuned.

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