Opening May 11th, Fountain Street gallery will open the inaugural exhibition in its new gallery space in South Boston: “Scarcely Awake,” featuring the work of two artists, Sarah Alexander and Tatiana Flis. The show highlights a variety of each artist’s work, including painting, drawing, sculpture, and mixed-media installation, and centers on the notion of the in-between. Alexander’s and Flis’ work carry similar themes of time, movement, and the subconscious, while walking the fine line between reality and the imagined.

In addition, an audio piece created by sound artist Todd Bowser will play in parallel with the exhibition.

There will be a preview of the exhibition opening on May 5th, which coincides with SoWa’s First Friday.

Using painting as her chosen method, Sarah Alexander processes observations, emotions, and experiences. Sparked by obsessive curiosity, and without restraint, Alexander purges all that perplexes and fascinates into her work. Her current series focuses on the results of excessive daily intuitive drawing sessions. Through these, Alexander explores the environment as if observing it from a dream, from the subconscious. Alexander’s work plays between the realms of abstract and illustration.

Working primarily in sculpture and drawing, Tatiana Flis is fascinated by the almost imperceptible stillness before, during and after the moment of discovery; still, frozen moments which slip away as soon as our analytical minds take control. Her artwork aims to capture these moments, employing surrealist language in a dynamic approach. Flis’ works are designed as an intriguing game between real and illusory, questioning our social constructs. Her imagery becomes the impossible; an illusion of imitation, which always arrives at its own peculiar destination. She gives access into private worlds not unlike our own, creating connections across boundaries of time and space.

Todd Bowser combines field recordings and improvisations into sprawling sonic experiments in tape and digital audio. Rooted in decaying gadgets acquired over twenty years of music-making, his work combines primitive home recording techniques with digital manipulation in open source software environments.