You don’t dream in black-and-white.

You dream in shades of pink.

But your unabashed love of Kewpie dolls, old-time starlets, and all things pretty hardly makes you an airhead. Which is why you’ll be an instant fan of artist Wanyu Chou. Her dreamy paintings, currently on display at Black Market LA, feature ultra-feminine images shot through with a kind of magical realism. Special Handling is a Barbie-like study with flower petals. A Lady’s Portrait depicts a doe-eyed Liv Tyler look-alike. Kewpie dolls, anthropomorphized presents, and pinup girls also make an appearance.

Wanyu, a former dancer from Taiwan, manages to infuse her work with a delicate surrealism that makes it at once adorable and unsettling. All in all, you get the sense that she’s a girl who loves girlie stuff — but in a slightly cockeyed way.

Which, really, is the only way to love it.

“New Paintings by Wanyu Chou” is on view through September 20 at Black Market LA, 2023 Sawtelle Boulevard, between Olympic and Santa Monica Boulevards (310-966-1555).