Possessing the intense irrationality of a dream, Mark Bryan's intuitively created images evoke emotions that are curiously tempered by a comic quality. Like all images that derive from the subconscious, they are ambiguous; yet even with their incongruous nature, they hint at profound underlying thoughts and anxieties.

Dreams are filled with metaphors, a crossing over from unconscious to conscious levels of understanding. Bryan's paintings underscore the synthesis that can occur when the magical world of the artist's dream life is transfused into pictorial reality. In concert, the two stimulate the mind of the viewer and evolve to yet another magical world of subjective reality.

Bryan's work elicits multiple interpretations. Some can be read as the annihilation of stereotypes and antiquated belief systems. His use of the "fool" is perhaps a "wise fool," who has possibly gained new insights, and wastes no time in distancing himself from the asphyxiating tenets of outdated dogma.