THE VALLEY

Drawings by Bryn Manley have the streamlined surreality of graphic work by Ken Price. There’s something wonderfully wacky about these oil pastels, which employ sophisticated techniques to express a riotous jumble of unrelated ideas. A carnival theme seems to be at the center of Manley’s kaleidoscope of color and imagery, which includes a fish with a full set of dentures, a flying pig, and the head of Michelangelo’s “David.”

Manley’s work puts one in mind of the animation sequences in “Monty Python” and the film “Yellow Submarine,” and it comes as no surprise to learn that the artist is a native of England. This must be the style they teach at Manley’s alma mater, the Royal College of Art in London.

Also on view is a series of lyrical abstractions by George Small. Favoring a palette of candy shop pinks and blues, Small applies paint in such a way that the surface of his pictures looks as though it were worked over with the blade of a serrated knife. This seems a pointless affectation and while Small’s softly atmospheric pictures are adequately decorative, they’re little else. (Orlando Gallery, 14553 Ventura Blvd., to Feb. 27.)