Polly Burnell's intimate and color-saturated expressionist landscapes possess a power like Alice's magic keyhole. Viewers are drawn through Burnell's painted portals into subtly surreal landscapes. Burnell’s body of work contributes to the evolution of an indigenous American Modernist style, and shows influences of Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove, among others. Her paintings are simultaneously mysterious and accessible, simple and complex, re-inventing European Surrealism's tendency toward the menacing (Giorgio de Chirico), or even twisted (Salvador Dali). Burnell's paintings invoke contemplation and reflection, a deeper look into remembrances of things in the past, present, and future.