dark crystals
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Dark Crystals
Curated by Jacques de Beaufort
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Visionary Art“The visionary realm embraces the entire spectrum of imaginal spaces – from heaven to hell, from the infinitude of forms to formless voids. The psychologist James Hillman calls it the imaginal realm. Poet William Blake called it the divine imagination. The aborigines call it the dreamtime; and Sufis call it alam al-mithal. To Plato, this was the realm of the ideal archetypes. The Tibetans call it the sambhogakaya – the dimension of inner richness. Theosophists refer to the astral, mental, and nirvanic planes of consciousness. Carl Jung knew this realm as the collective symbolic unconscious. Whatever we choose to call it, the visionary realm is the space we visit during dreams and altered or heightened states of consciousness.” –Alex Grey
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Carol Prusa
My constructed domes are
provocative symbols that invoke the
idea of the universe and physical
objects that allude to real-life
structures. In my “canopies,” I
explore a number of mathematical
models that physicists developed to
explain our universe. The
mathematics of my expressed
geometries offer a spiritual force
that organizes structures from the
microsopic to the political. Here,
geometry isn’t simply abstract but
creates a real world, sustained by
its own logic.
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Carol Prusa
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Carol Prusa
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Carol Prusa
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David Alan Sincavage
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David Alan SincavageI believe art should shock the viewer's interests and curiosity enough to consider more time for a second look.
Art should be so bold...unaffected by biting criticism, that it keeps pushing the edge of common thought out further, bringing the masses out of its slumber.
"No, painting is not made to decorate apartments, it's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy." Pablo Picasso, Les LettresFrancaises, March 24, 1945
Artists I like
Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, Maxfield Parrish, Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Tanguy, OdilonRedon, Pablo Picasso, and many more.
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David Alan Sincavage
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David Alan Sincavage
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Jose Mertz
Jose Mertz is a artist / image maker
/ graphic designer based in Miami,
Fl. His creative area of interest is
traditional drawing, painting as well
as digital design. He focuses on
pushing an experimental style with
inspirations coming from Ancient
Civilizations, Symbolism, Eastern
Philosophy, Dreams, Myth & the
Super Natural.
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Jose Mertz
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Jose Mertz
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Jose Mertz
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Samantha Salzinger
These works explore the fabricated
environment questioning the collective
mind of the age, where reality is as
malleable as a simulation and a
simulation as lifelike as reality.
Projecting mysterious places in an era
of genesis, the images reference
ideologies of popular culture that play
to our fantasies, fears and desires.
The metaphoric creation of the idyllic,
sublime landscape, act as core
unconscious escapism. Weaving
together the awe of the grandeur of
nature with science fiction, the viewer
is dreamer in an imaginary world,
optimistic of the future.
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Samantha Salzinger
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Samantha Salzinger
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Samantha Salzinger
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Amy GrossI’m fascinated and disturbed by symbiosis, whether it’s through thinking or illness or neglect, a strangler fig, errant cells, or mold. I make environments where everything represented is made out of something else - imitative materials: fabric, paper, applique, embroidery thread, paint, beads, oil pastel, and wax. I re-imagine the landscape and objects from nature, altered through my life and experiences of the human body. I mix anxieties and secrets, physical symptoms and the love and fear of being mortal with fabricated roots and leaves and pods and insects and blooms. I mimic the quickly changing natural world through man-made materials with a longer shelf life, an attempt, though illusory, to slow change, to consider and to hold on to life longer. Sometimes I like them framed, contained, externally well behaved, my own memento mori. After considering the surfaces and the sides and the cross-sections I’ve started making freestanding objects, organisms growing of their own accord, as though I had found them in the back of the closet, symptoms of neglect rediscovered, collected, organized and brought out to air.
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Amy Gross
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Amy Gross
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Amy Gross
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Reinier GamboaReinier Gamboa is a fine artist whose work is visual poetry. The artist weaves several narratives into a patchwork of experience as he’s guided by intuition down paths that reveal themselves in the moment. Each painting is the layered accomplice of time and a testament of personal introspection. The end result is a journal of process. Each image is a window into an evolving reality that nurtures the spawning of different connections. Within each work is a need to emphasize unity in a world that may seem chaotic and fragmented but which is actually tied by undercurrents that are not visible to all at first glance.
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Reinier Gamboa
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Reinier Gamboa
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Reinier Gamboa
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Nune Asatryan
Nune was born in Armenia.Her
work reflects the great ancient
culture of historical Armenia mixed
with contemporary modern life.
Her style described by several art
critics as Symbolism, Surrealism
and Mystic Impressionism.
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Nune Asatryan
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Nune Asatryan
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Nune Asatryan
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Ryan Toth
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Ryan Toth
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Ryan Toth
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Freddy JouwayedA dot is made to appear on a surface. It is both a point of origin and of convergence. A dot bleeds through a surface to emerge behind the skin landing on another plane. Two more points now exist to react upon. One is an extension of the first, the other replication. Lines are added and reacted upon with other lines. Gestures begin to accumulate and forms then appear and multiply. From these forms, others come into existence, layering their meaning. More opportunities arise to contemplate. Surrender to a constant and meditative state of action and reaction to markings that accumulate, extracting layers and fragments of the mind then alluding to thoughts and manifestations of the state of being.
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Freddy Jouwayed
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