Imagination, inner worlds and their impact and implications on the outer world take precedence in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. Fascinated by the persistence of animal imagery in mythology and communal cultural imaginaries, Matthew Grabelsky superimposes its presence onto his depictions of the contemporary world. For the artist, the animal becomes a manifestation of the inner workings of the hidden subconscious, literally revealing the latent identities and motivations lurking beyond the composure of the human mask at Thinkspace Gallery
2. Dima Drjuchin’s “The Infinity Key” consists of a new series of paintings whose subject matter continue to reflect the artist’s unique hyper dimensional worlds densely populated with his fictional characters and creatures at Campfire Gallery
3. Ward Shelley makes paintings with information the way historians make stories from facts. His new exhibition is titled “The Felicific Calculus” and presents eight new paintings that tease out narratives on the subject of consumer culture at Pierogi
4. Having been heavily influenced by British culture in the 1990s, Scott Listfield plays homage to this time in his life using British urban landscapes as his backdrop and referencing iconic British music. Using his astronauts, he takes us on an alternative journey through the streets of London, creating a strange world of the familiar yet surreal at StolenSpace Gallery
5. Camilla d’Errico on her latest work: ““With my ‘Dances with Dreams’ showing, I wanted to invite audiences to explore the hauntingly beautiful states of the subconscious mind – while awake and in dream.  The feeling as though they were walking through a colorful and serene dreamscape when pondering whether the girl in each portraiture is dreaming or whether she is the viewer’s dream.” at Corey Helford Gallery
6. Amy Hill’s inspiration for her most recent body of work is American Folk Art, which served as a reflection of the artists’ impressions of society, its needs and mores. In updating these paintings, Hill has depicted urban children decorated by logos, tattoos, piercings, drugs and digital media. This allows for an examination of the phenomenon of innocence, its value, and the possibility of its survival in a fast moving world at Front Room Gallery