Erewhon: The Nowhere Future by J. Adam McGalliard

By (author): J. Adam McGalliard

Title: Erewhon: The Nowhere Future

Subtitle: Painting After the Anthropocene

Blurb:

In Erewhon: The Nowhere Future, J. Adam McGalliard merges classical craft with speculative vision, creating mythic realist paintings that imagine what it means to paint after the Anthropocene. His figures, rendered in oil on linen, inhabit a fragile space between the human and the post-human, the natural and the invented.

Taking its name from Samuel Butler’s 1874 novel, Erewhon (an anagram of “nowhere”) becomes a speculative world where humanity and nature reconfigure themselves in luminous, dreamlike equilibrium. Astronauts, saints, and spectral hybrids inhabit a place both ancient and unreal, a nowhere future that mirrors our collective uncertainty.

Combining classical technique with contemporary reference systems, McGalliard constructs a visual language that bridges the tactile and the algorithmic, the mythic and the cinematic. Through paintings, process images, and installation views, this volume traces the emergence of a painterly world that looks forward by reimagining the past. 

ISBN: 978-87-7620-636-9

Book language: English

Publishing house: Snap Collective

Website: www.snap-collective.com

Editorial Assistant: Anna Romanovici

Designer: Anastasia Gushan

Published on: in production

Category: Art

Price (€):129

Keywords: Erewhon, Contemporary Realism, Mythic Realism, Figurative Painting, Oil Painting, Classical Technique, Symbolism, Contemporary Mythology, Speculative Art, Posthuman Imagination, Anthropocene, Environmental Art, Narrative Painting, Cinematic Painting, Old Master Craft, Modern Allegory, Identity, Transformation, Humanity and Nature, Technological Evolution