Northern California Visionary Art: A Contemporary Legacy
Show Dates May 10- September 7 2008
Grace Hudson Museum
The Sun House
431 S. Main
Ukiah, CA 95482
USA
gracehudsonmuseum.org
In the late 1960s the San Francisco Bay Area became the most important focal point for a new art movement. Amidst a background of Vietnam War protests, campus riots, a new Hippie idealistic counterculture, far eastern spiritual influences, underground comics, and psychedelic music and poster art, Visionary Art materialized.
A nucleus of artists developed on this wave of rising consciousness. They were influenced by Surrealism, Jungian universal archetypes, personal dream awareness, ancient art symbols, and non-Western religious philosophies. These new Visionary Artists expressed new alternate realities in their detailed dream-like images.
This exhibition germinated from the large number of Visionary artists who are now located in rural Northern California. The selection of works follows the traditions of personal dreamscape, utopian landscape, spiritual awakening, and apocalyptic visions as originally manifested in early California Visionary Art. Many of the founding visionary painters are represented, some with works that span the history of the movement. Other exhibiting artists have immigrated here from afar or are younger painters representing a second visionary generation. From the plethora of visionary art discovered in the course of organizing this exhibition, it is clear that visionary art remains an important creative force.
The seventeen artists represented in the show include: Thomas Akawie, Andrew Annenberg, Don Bear, Bonnie Bisbee, Krista Lynn Brown, Josie Grant, Mark Henson, Nick Hyde, Bil Martin, Paul Nicholson, Gene Avery North, Maire Palme, Paul Pratchenko, Janet Rayner, Mark Roland, Douglas Volz, and John Wagenet. Marvin Schenck, Grace Hudson Museum Curator, and Douglas Volz, one of the participating artists, organized the exhibition.
English
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