“So I traveled a great deal. I met George, Ebbe, Joy, Philip, Jack, Robert, Dora, Harold, Jerome, Ed, Mike, Tom, Bill, Harvey, Sheila, Irene, John, Michael, Mertis, Gai-fu, Jay, Jim, Anne, Kirby, Allen, Peter, Charles, Drummond, Cassandra, Pamela, Marilyn, Lewis, Ted, Clayton, Cid, Barbara, Ron, Richard, Tony, Paul, Anne, Russell, Larry, Link, Anthea, Martin, Jane, Don, Fatso, Clark, Anja, Les, Sue, and Brian,” a group exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, is up through August 18. Organized by Vincent Fecteau and Jordan Stein, the show includes six Northern California artists, and it aims to capture “the lesser-known, the ahead-of-its-time, the hard-to-classify, the ecstatic, the hermetic, and the strange.” Works by two of the artists, Isabella Kirkland and Jack Mendenhall, are below.

Isabella Kirkland, Egg Cases, 2014, oil and alkyd on wood panel, 7 3/4″ x 7 3/4″. ©Isabella Kirkland, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Isabella Kirkland, Appendages, 2014, oil and alkyd on wood panel, 7 3/4″ x 7 3/4″. ©Isabella Kirkland, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Isabella Kirkland , Nudibranchia, 2015, oil and alkyd on polyester over wood panel, 48″ x 60″. ©Isabella Kirkland, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Jack Mendenhall, Yellow Tulips, 1973, oil on linen, 76″ x 80″. ©Jack Mendenhall, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

Jack Mendenhall, Mirrored Table with Decanters, 1981, oil on canvas, 72″ x 68″. ©Jack Mendenhall, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery