Fantastic Realities is the American Visionary Art Museum’s 30th-anniversary mega-exhibition, presenting more than 130 artworks, including radiant and surreal oil paintings, colorful and poignant ceramic subway scenes, haunting lithographs, posable handcrafted action figures, chainsaw-carved minotaurs, and colorful hand-painted sci-fi galaxies. The exhibition focuses on depicted worlds: some artists channel from other dimensions, offering truths beyond our perceptions; others dream of what could be, mirror what is, or warn of what might come. Every motif, character, and setting has a purpose. By entwining exquisitely wrought imagination with startling revelations about our world, Fantastic Realities reminds us that even the most implausible truths often dwell only a daydream away— that sometimes, the delightful, the absurd, and the enchanted lead us closer to the truth.