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Gallery 905 welcomed featured artist Dori DeCamillis Thursday night with an opening reception.

DeCamillis showed off her vivid paintings in the exhibit to a crowd at the gallery. Each of the paintings features different animals. They are done in a surrealist style delves into the state of the mind.

“The open-ended nature of the subjects lends themselves to broad interpretation,” DeCamillis said. “I enjoy getting to talk with different people, and when I ask them what they feel or see in each painting, the answers are very different. Every person has a different idea of what it is saying to them.”

One of the more popular paintings that the crowd gravitated to was one of a rabbit in what looks like a magician’s hat shop. This a part of “The Without a Net Card Deck,” a collection of 55 paintings presented as a kind of artistic inkblot test.

DeCamillis has worked on paintings in this collection since 2011. In addition to appearing in Selma as a part of the 1st Saturday Selma series, DeCamillis has been featured in major galleries and museums across the country, including the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Sherry Frumkin Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Mobile Museum of Art. She also co-founded Red Dot Gallery in Birmingham, where she continues to teach.

DeCamillis said she was impressed with the arts scene in Selma.

“Selma shows a lot of support for the arts,” DeCamillis said. “And downtown Selma is such a great setting for an event like this.”