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Visionary Art, Contemporary Sacred Art, Outsider Art

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Galleries, news, interviews and expose of a New Art of Spirit.

The mission of this website is to explore, archive and present the emergence of a contemporary sacred and visionary art within the context of global culture.



January 25th, 2010 | Published in Interviews  |  4 Comments

The incredible painter Ann McCoy guides us first hand through the powerful archetypal imagery of her paintings, recounting a major initiatory passage catylised by her mothers death. Highly recommended viewing.

Ava Avatar

January 25th, 2010 | Published in Visionary Art Culture

By Erik Davis
With its floating Roger Deanscapes and hallucinogenic flora, the manifest world of Avatar instead spoke another truth: that the jungle pantheism that now pervades the psychoactive counterculture has gone thoroughly mainstream.

“The Dehumanization of Art” and “Mules, without understanding”

January 14th, 2010 | Published in Visionary Art Culture

In this scholarly article, reprinted with generous permission from the Museum of European Art (USA) Prometheus issue 151, the visionary painter Oleg Korolev describes the spiritually corrosive forces of modernism and its extreme arrogance in denouncing and abandoning the spiritual and sacred art lineages, that have functioned as repositories of sacred symbols and meanings pertaining to the most intimate levels of the spiritual life of man.

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  • Temple Media : Womb of Creation Published in Art News, Visionary Art Culture

    In the core of downtown LA is the emergence of a new collection of creative energies, a colourful community united by the a collective yearning for change. Gathering together in the spirit of the artful imagination, these visionaries are reflecting our transition into a new kind of culture

  • Singing To The Plants – Interview with Steve Beyer Published in Interviews

    Steve uses his own compelling experience with meeting and knowing Mestizo Ayahuasca shamans to thread together a detailed understanding of the rituals and worldview of the Ayahuasquero, expressing his understanding of the deep aspects of his subject, such as the realms, entities and forces of the shamanic realms, with a refreshing phenomenological purity, humility, and respect for the mysteries.

  • A Sacred and Visionary Art Primer Published in Text

    Sacred art cannot be delineated as a discreet movement, or genre. Sacred and visionary elements are to be found across the spectrum of art, across all times and places. Visionary art is an expression of profound and mysterious levels of consciousness. And it is ancient, the ‘original art’, whos aim is to continually revive and resurrect a profound respect of mystery within the matrix of culture.

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Art News

26th
Jan
2010
Venosa and Martina Hoffmann at the International Symposium on Altered States of Consciousness»

Experts from various fields and disciplines come together to address the issue of consciousness
and its modified states: Neuroscience, Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, Shamanism,
Psychotherapy, History, Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Etnology and Art.

14th
Jan
2010
Temple Media : Womb of Creation»

In the core of downtown LA is the emergence of a new collection of creative energies, a colourful community united by the a collective yearning for change. Gathering together in the spirit of the artful imagination, these visionaries are reflecting our transition into a new kind of culture

11th
Jan
2010
Temple of Visions Opening Photos»

First Temple of Visions photos found at Rychard Mac’s photo blog. It looks amazing !

30th
Dec
2009
First group exhibition for Fantastic Visions»

2010 starts with the first group exhibition project for Fantastic Visions. We will be exhibiting the artwork of Dennis Konstantin, Micha Colory Krebs and Leo Plaw at the Lichtenberger Kultschule in Berlin. The exhibition will comprise a selection of the artists paintings.

29th
Dec
2009
TEMPLE OF VISIONS GALLERY & SACRED SPACE : GROUP SHOW ‘WOMB OF CREATION’»

Jan. 9, Los Angeles – Temple of Visions dives onto the Los Angeles art scene with a new 2500 sq. ft. gallery & sacred space. Helmed by downtown resident & art scene regular Jimmy Bleyer, Temple of Visions seeks to bridge International visionary culture with the Los Angeles art world.

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