Friedrich Kunath, "The Temptation to Exist (May Contain Nuts)"

A German artist living in L.A., Kunath takes a wide-ranging and ambitious approach to his art, which could be described as a comically surreal exploration of life's vagaries, especially as they play out at the intersection of consciousness and unconscious, or reality, dreams and daydreams. Drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video are all part of the package. His latest show bills itself as "a fever dream," in which viewers are invited to "wander the juxtaposed realms of past and future, elegance and decay, the bucolic and the strange."