Allyn Gallup invites Sarasota to look at the outside world a little differently with his gallery’s newest exhibit, Drawn From Nature. Featuring landscapes and seascapes from multiple artists in varied styles, from the literal to the highly abstract, Gallup’s latest offering transforms one of the painting world’s most traditional subjects and turns it on its head.

“Who doesn’t like nature?,” said Allyn Gallup, owner and operator of his namesake gallery on his choice to showcase landscapes. “It’s romantic and they’ll never go out of style.”

And if there’s one thing Drawn From Nature has plenty of, it’s style. The more traditional landscapes and seascapes are present, but with a twist. Bill Nichols’ pieces, including First Light, could have been your standard forest shots, but instead the artist places the viewer inside the foliage and among the trees, sending you to a hidden refuge you didn’t know you were missing.

Susan J. Klein’s work stands out with its imaginative color schemes and precision detail. Red and purple trees spread their turquoise canopy over expanses of glowing orange water, invoking a dream-like wonder.

Further blurring the lines between man-made and natural, a handful of cityscapes are on display from artists such as Deborah Brown and Janaki Lennie. Brown’s red and black ground-level view of the Brooklyn sky, complete with cables spanning overhead and a watertower perched on the horizon is a true delight, impresses while Janaki’s depiction of the Houston skyline through the blazing orange heat and haze evokes an understated beauty and calm.

A standout piece and one of the most singular in style has to be Andrew Kuziak’s 18 Holes, an abstract representation with a surprising subject—a golf course. Constructed of countless overlapping and arcing lines and splashes of color, strung across three canvases, what at first appears mystifying or jumbled coalesces into the forms of golfers and country clubs. It’s half-puzzle and completely masterful.

“He’s making art more than merely two dimensional,” said Gallup of Kuziak. “He’s making art that has some depth to it.”

Drawn From Nature will be on display in the Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art Gallery until mid-October.