The creative spirit of Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin—rock musicians who all tragically died at age 27—still shines brightly in Scott Lobaido’s surreal “Forever 27.” Stylistically drawing from Dali and Escher, the work shows the artists happily reunited in a rock and roll heaven strewn with symbols, such as a ball and chain, which was the name of one of Joplin’s songs. The melted remnants of a dripping clock suggest that the musicians’ time had run out, but their legacy thrives. Lobaido’s other works include controversial patriotic images, surreal portraits of Frankenstein and flamboyantly dressed women of the 1940s.

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