Dark Crystals

Curated by Jacques de Beaufort

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

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.

Carol Prusa

Carol Prusa

Carol Prusa

David Alan Sincavage

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.

David Alan Sincavage

David Alan Sincavage

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.

Jose Mertz

Jose Mertz

Jose Mertz

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.

Samantha Salzinger

Samantha Salzinger

Samantha Salzinger

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.

Amy Gross

Amy Gross

Amy Gross

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.

Reinier Gamboa

Reinier Gamboa

Reinier Gamboa

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.

Nune Asatryan

Nune Asatryan

Nune Asatryan

Ryan Toth

Ryan Toth

Ryan Toth

Ryan Toth

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.

Freddy Jouwayed

Freddy Jouwayed

Freddy Jouwayed