Surreal is a word that tends to get misused - "man, it was so foggy last night the city looked surreal" - but it means something quite specific. Had this in mind after previewing some works by Michael Pittman and Rhonda Pelley, whose exhibit opens at the Leyton Gallery this Friday evening. You might be tempted to call Pittman's abstract forms and arrangements surreal, but that's not quite right; it's kind of dreamy stuff, like Pelley's (they show well together); like the city in the fog, a gray dream of itself.

(Image: www.linesandcolors.com.)