... And Then It All Came Back To Me expands on metaphysical interpretations of the artist's dreams,
the invented symbolic language that has long been a hallmark of the work, and most notably on the idea of self - portraiture as exploration of the artist - as - archetype.
The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to
invent their own worlds by transforming the
symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.