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John Sauer
@johnsauerart.bsky.social
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Committed Anti AI degenerate pencil chewin’ artisté.
Through Nov.: Fish In The Percolator; a David Lynch tribute @ spring arts gallery, LA
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Upon Arrival On Moonbase 1, 10"x10" oil on panel.
I've been working on a few small paintings for the upcoming Stranger Factory Winter Salon group show. It opens December 6th. Check out: www.strangerfactory.com for more info and art from out of this world!!
#art #surreal #popsurreal #johnsauerart
A small oil painting depicting our favorite moondog romping about the moonbase, as moondogs do.
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The Way Home, 4"x6" oil on prepped postcard.
Another one for the upcoming 3rd annual Postcard Show @brassworksgallery.bsky.social -opens Dec. 13th!!-
A fun show with artists from around the world.
#surreal #art #popsurreal #putthatinyourpipe #squeezebox #johnsauerart
A small painting of a little one eyed house smoking a pipe and playing a squeezebox.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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3 With Bongos, 9"x12" oil on panel, 2023 (sold).
A painting for one of the Unloved Creatures group shows at Rogue Buddha Gallery here in Minneapolis.
#art #surreal #popsurreal #bongos #supernumarist #pickacard
A small painting of a three armed robodrone playing bongos while holding up a card. Is this your card?
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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It's that tine of year, and I want to remind everyone to know the difference. The brains you save may be your own!
#brrraiinnnzzzzz
A public service announcement: Zombie, or Drunk?! Know the difference!
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Are You Sure? 4"x6" oil on prepared postcard.
This is for the upcoming annual Brassworks Postcard show.
Stay tuned for more, and make sure you follow @brassworksgallery.bsky.social
Also - Happy Halloween!!
#art #surreal #popsurreal #postcardshow #johnsauerart
A small oil painting of skeleton in a paisley print smoking jacket, enjoying a pipe, and emitting a pink smoke nipple bomb. As one does.
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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The Spellcaster 8"x8"oil on panel, 2023 (sold)
From the Love Or Whatever group show in NE MPLS a couple years back. A little scene depicting some midnight love potion hoodoo in the works.
#art #surreal #popsurreal #lovepotion #hoodoo #johnsauerart
A small surreal oil painting depicting a goat masked hoodoo practitioner working up a midnight love potion.
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Misfit, 10"x12" oil on panel 2023 (sold)
From a group show a couple years back.
I've always felt Charlie had issues.
#art #surreal #popsurreal #islandofmisfittoys #borntolose #johnsauerart
A small oil painting depicting Charlie In A Box from the Island Of Misfit Toys making a getaway after torching an ice cream truck in a suburban neighborhood.
October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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It Was Real Fun, 8"x10" oil on panel.
This is the second of two paintings for the David Lynch tribute show: Fish In The Percolator. The show opens this weekend, Oct. 12th at The Spring Arts Gallery in The Last Bookstore DTLA.

#art #surreal #davidlynch #crazyclowntime
A small oil painting depicting two revelers, a young woman and young man, at a small backyard gathering. It was real fun.
October 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Premonition, 9.75x13.75 oil on panel.
This painting is for the upcoming David Lynch tribute show: Fish In The Percolator, at Spring Arts Gallery in The Last Bookstore DTLA, and curated by @artbythecreep.bsky.social
The opening is Oct. 12, 4-7:30 pm
#art #surrealism #davidlynch #lumier #johnsauerart
October 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The Harvest, 8”x10” oil on panel, 2022 (sold).
Another Pretend Times piece.
#art #surreal #popsurreal #squishy #johnsauerart
8x10 surreal oil painting of a pink commuter melting at a bus stop while looking at their phone.
September 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The Gardner, 14”x18” oil on linen panel 2022.
Another from the Pretend Times show @brassworksgallery.bsky.social
#art #surreal #popsurreal #gardening #urbanforager
The Gardener, an 18”x14” surreal painting depicting an amateur urban botanist discovering some unusual flora sprouting from the sidewalk.
September 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The Explanation, 8”x8” oil on panel, 2022 (sold).
From the Pretend Times show at @brassworksgallery.bsky.social
#art #surreal #popsurreal #alley #tuffs #fonzandrichie #sheepinwolvesmasks
a small surreal painting depicting a lost pair of adventurers meeting a pair of city denizens in a dark alleyway. they’re startling and fierce appearance belies their helpful nature, as they ask “Hey, youse lookin’ for someone, bub?”
August 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Clean Up On Aisle 7, 8”x10” oil on panel, 2022 (sold)
from the Pretend Times show at @brassworksgallery.bsky.social
#art #surreal #popsurreal #fly #kevin #feelin7up
Kevin, the human fly, is at work mopping up a spill in the grocery store aisle in this 8”x10” surreal painting titled Clean Up On Aisle 7.
August 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I Hear A New World, 12”x16” oil on panel (sold). Another painting that was part of the Pretend Times show at @brassworksgallery.bsky.social
#art #surreal #popsurreal #skate #pocketradio #painting
A surreal painting depicting a skateboarding character with a vintage pocket radio traversing a colorful, hilly, alien-like landscape with a city in the background, and feathered balloon creatures in the sky.
August 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Shortfall, 11x14 oil in panel 2022, (sold)
Another one that was part of the Pretend Times show at @brassworksgallery.bsky.social
#art #surreal #popsurreal #ufo #rocket #pretendtimes #dustopian #escapeplan
11x14 surreal oil painting depicting a forlorn looking mecha-pill person-drone on a rocket ship kiddie ride chained next to a building on the sidewalk.
August 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Petitioning The Fates, 14”x18” oil on panel. This was in the Beautifully Bleak group show @brassworksgallery.bsky.social
#art #surreal #popsurreal #beautifullybleak #painting #coyoteandcrow #existentialbusking
A 14”x18” surreal oil painting titled Petitioning The Fates. It depicts a young busker on an abandoned street corner playing guitar, wearing a coyote mask, and singing to a couple crows.
July 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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New Aventurers, 5”x5” oil on panel 2022 (sold).
This little one was part of an Unloved Creatures group show at Rogue Buddha Gallery.
#art #surreal #popsurreal #birdhat #johnsauerart
A mini surreal painting of a professorial blue rabbit in a vest and shirtsleeves, with a travel companion bird that lives in its bowler hat. They’re embarking on an adventure.
July 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Departure, 8”x10” oil on panel. 2022 (sold) This was in the Beautifully Bleak group show.
@brassworksgallery.bsky.social #art #surreal #popsurreal #dystopian #scooter #postapocalypticmod
An 8”x10” surreal painting depicting a mecha-drone-pill person leaving what’s left of a city on a blue vespa style scooter, while being watched by illuminated surveillance creatures on tall stalks.
July 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The Odyssey, 14”x18” oil on panel. Available. This was in an Unloved Creatures group show at Rogue Buddha Gallery.
The Odyssey, 14”x18” oil on panel. An oil painting that depicts 2 young sailors navigating a vast parking lot in their dinghy, christened the #6, while wearing farm animal masks. The bleak dry landscape and harsh sun afford no travel, but there is time to play some recordings on their galoshed victrola. And, while they wait, a seagull is on lookout.
July 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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In These Pretend Times.
8”x10” oil on panel, 2022 (sold)
This one was for the Pretend Times show at Brassworks Gallery.
#art #surreal #popsurreal #dystopian
dystopian-mecha-pseudo-holycard
June 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Wrecked, 10”x10” oil, 2023 (sold)
#art #surreal #popsurreal #dystopian #rekkids
A painting of a cute yellow bear sitting on a mountain of garbage and debris, listening to records as a city burns in the distance.
June 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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We Can Pretend, 5”x7” oil on panel, 2020 (sold)
#art #surreal #popsurreal #unicorn #giddyup
a small oil painting of a robot sitting on a unicorn kiddie ride, of course. Hey, who’s got a nickel?
May 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Hully Gully With Moon, 10x10 oil on panel 2022 (sold). Another Pretend Times piece.
#art #johnsauerart #surreal #popsurreal #urbansurreal #hullygully #rekkids
10x10 oil painting of a music lover taking a stroll in the city on a lovely evening and enjoying a favorite hully gully dance record while admiring the beauty of the moon.
May 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Mayday, 18”x24” oil on panel (2022).
Currently available at brassworksgallery.com
#art #johnsauerart #surreal #popsurreal #utbansurrealism #dystopia
18x24 oil painting of three children wearing endangered animal masks and going around a floating seamine tethered by a chain that they’re using as a makeshift Maypole in the ruins of a city.
May 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Devotional, 8”x15” oil on panel, 2022 (sold).
This one was part of the Pretend Times show at Brassworks Gallery in ‘23.
#art #johnsauerart #surreal #popsurreal #pretendtimes #extinction
8”x15” oil painting of a mecha/pill person standing amongst urban ruins, and holding a very large caterpillar.
May 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM