NEW YORK, N.Y.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Otherworldliness, an exhibition of surrealist and magic realist paintings on view from November 5 to December 23, 2011. Through paintings by eighteen American artists — including Eldzier Cortor, Alfonso Ossorio, Hughie Lee-Smith, DorotheaTanning, Pavel Tchelitchew, and George Tooker — the exhibition reveals the continuities between the two styles as well as differences that enable them to be understood as distinct tracks in the trajectory of American modernism. Surrealism and magic realism emerged in the early part of the last century and share a drive to convey the immaterial and intangible — feelings, unconscious stirrings, invisible worlds. As their names suggest, both styles were well aware of the limits of realist representation, particularly when faced with the task of portraying the trauma of the 1930s and 1940s. But while surrealists explored t