Tashi Fay is an artist whose practice encompasses painting, collage, sculpture, and installation, although she primarily uses painting to set the stage for her bizarre and dreamlike narratives. Mining the visual depths of her experiences with insomnia, nightmares, vivid dreaming, and sleep paralysis, Fay extracts symbolic arrangements, figures, and other objects from the unconscious, which, when activated as subjects in her work, press a psychic nerve in both artist and viewer. Fay’s background in textiles and collaging is seen throughout her small-scale, oil-on-panel paintings, which maintain stark outlines, a playful two-dimensionality, and lush, contrasting textures. Combining her talent for color with her keen sense of the cinematic, she depicts strange scenarios: from red, fleshily-rendered bedsheets that marry beauty with horror to an image of Alice in Wonderland’s blue-and-white frock billowing gently over a lemony exterior, retaining the stiff contours of her body. The peculiar and unsettled reverberate through Fay’s artworks, ringing with a dark and hilarious truth, at once the artist’s own yet resonant to all.