Alex Fishgoyt went to film school in Moscow and art school in New York, and never fully picked a side. So his paintings are both: a cast, a set, and a story that will keep you entranced from the very first look.

Yes, it’s surrealism. But this isn’t the museum-poster kind. It’s mythology and memory, old stories told in colors turned up past where most painters would stop, with enough detail that the third look is better than the first.

These are paintings you don’t finish looking at. You come back a week later and find a door you missed. These are paintings you don’t finish looking at. You hang one, and a year later you find a door you missed. He’s on our wall now, one block from the Hemingway Home.

Find yours. Take the story home.