For millennia, people have believed the food they eat influences their dreams. It makes sense, when we’re hungriest at night and dreaming about the next morning’s breakfast. What if it was the other way around? Do your dreams influence the food you eat? Cerealism, the latest group art exhibition coming to Pitch Black Printing Co. takes this inquiry head-on. In this body of work, the playful aesthetics of everyone’s favorite morning breakfast food merge with the dreamlike absurdities of Surrealism. We’re not sure if it’s what Freud or Dali envisioned, but we’re hungry for it all the same.
This March, we welcome over 15 local artists to the Pitch Black Gallery for the grand opening of Cerealism, challenging them to “think beyond the bowl” with their artwork. The only rule? No other breakfast foods allowed. With an open call, we searched far and wide for Louvre-worthy art that packs a crunch, and we were far from disappointed. This exhibition shows off everything from paleolithic reimagined relics of the Flintstone Family to Magritte-style dreams of a breakfast buffet. This bizarre and nostalgic exhibition offers an opportunity to celebrate the Saturday mornings of youth with strange and hunger-inducing art that echoes the heights of the Surrealism movement (notwithstanding all the bad puns we’ve made along the way).
RIGHT: A cereal spoof of René Magritte’s Golconda. Magritte says the weather forecast is Froot Loops…
Hungry for Cerealism yet? When you come to the exhibition, here are a few of the artists you’ll get to meet through their food-inspired art. Sculptor Mark Combs reminds us that cereal doesn’t always have to be served cold. Of his needle-felted bowls, Combs says…
ABOVE: Mark Combs, Some Like it Hot, needle felted wool and mixed materials, 2025
“Most people immediately think of a box of cereal with the milk of their choice – this is my version of the ever-present hot cereal enjoyed by cultures all over the world for centuries. Based on my own daily breakfast to include my favorite additions, Some Like it Hot offers the alternative to the cold cereal routine.”
Katerina Vodehnal’s latest piece in the Cerealism exhibition is as magically delicious as the cereal that inspired it. Embracing the challenge of working with an unfamiliar medium, she pushed herself beyond her usual artistic techniques to create something entirely new.
“I wanted to push myself artistically and explore something totally new. So when given the Cerealism project, I knew I had to experiment with a medium I had never worked with before,” she explains. The result is a bold, breakfast-inspired creation created with tile and paint, that proves that great things happen when artists take creative leaps.
We have every expectation for this exhibition to satisfy your art (and breakfast) cravings. If you’re ready to dig in, grab your favorite spoon and swing by the opening reception for Cerealism, at Pitch Black Printing Co. on Friday, March 21st at 6 pm.
The show is on view Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am – 7 pm from March 21st – April 17th, 2025. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. Bring a friend, and we’ll be dreaming about our next breakfast right along with you in the meantime.
LEFT: Katerina Vodehnal’s tile-and-paint sculpture is magically delicious!
