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Love's Secret Domain is a show on contemporary psychedelic artopening June 8th at Brooklyn's 3rd Ward Gallery. Curated by SezeDevres and Tracey Norman, Love's Secret Domain presents the work of18 artists all working in diverse disciplines but finding a commonground in the exploration of heightened states of mind and theboundaries of the visual. Some of the art inspired by drugs, yes,but it is art that uses that inspiration as its relevant point ofreference rather than its definition.
Art and drugs having a close relationship is nothing new. TheSymbolists glorified their opium-induced visions; Walter Benjaminmade explicit the corollary between Surrealism and hashish; theSituationist drift owes as much to binges of ether and alcohol as itdoes to Marxist theory; and the party culture that surrounded Warholand the Factory is an obvious confluence of art, celebrity,decadence, and drugs. Continually then, both art and drugs findcommon ground in the aspiration to a transcendent, ecstatic state.But whereas drugs are by definition bodily in their influence andthus individual in their effect, art explores the same terrainaesthetically, visually, and potentially universally. Itstranscendence is one of the sacred become communal. Psychedelic artexplores the science of the possibilities of the inner world, theRenaissance discovery of perspective is not simply bested byhallucinogenic visions; those visions are its logical inheritor.
Love's Secret Domain showcases a wide-body of psychedelic art: JulieEvans' mystical spirograph paintings, Miriam Brumer's amorphicdreamscapes, Lorenzo de Los Angeles, Robert Horansky, and CotterLuppi's intricate pencil drawings, Debra Hampton's mixed-mediadrawings of explosive feminine forms, and Heung-Heung Chin'skaleidoscopic and rhapsodic animal-world dominion. There arehallucinatory pieces that illustrate the wide spectrum of thesubconscious as seen in the video work of the dynamic duos RobynVoshardt & Sven Humphrey and Aziz & Cucher, the magical 3Dpsychedelic animations of Scott Draves, the vibratory geometric colorburst paintings of Jeff Perrot, and the light installations of DenizKurtel. Also on view is a chemical drip camera-less photo by CurtisMitchell, Seze Devres' ketamine photograms, Jason Voegele's moleculardrug structure paintings, and David Last's large-scale drawing thatattempts to visualize sound. In addition, the exhibition will includevisual contributions by electronic and industrial music luminariesJ.G. Thirlwell and Genesis P. Orridge.3rd Ward Gallery is located in Brooklyn at 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn.The opening is to be followed by an after-party of live performancesand DJs at The Bunker, New York's premier weekly electronic dancemusic party from 10pm to 4am at Luna Lounge in Brooklyn.
Curators Contact Info:
Seze Devres
917 916 2619
Tracey Norman
917 543 1575
Featured Artists:
Aziz + Cucher
Miriam Brumer
Heung-Heung Chin
Lorenzo de Los Angeles
Seze Devres
Scott Draves
Julie Evans
Debra Hampton
Robert Horansky
Deniz Kurtel
David Last
Cotter Luppi
Curtis Mitchell
Genesis P. Orridge
Jeff Perrot
Jim Thirlwell
Jason Voegele
Robyn Voshardt + Sven Humphrey
However, psychedelia's appearances have reemerged repeatedly – during
the rave movement of the 1990s, for example – and in fact a number of
significant contemporary artists, from Fred Tomaselli to
L.C.Armstrong in this country to Chris Ofili and Peter Doig in the
U.K., make works clearly influenced by first-generation psychedelics.
In fact people interested in seeing what contemporary psychedelic art
looks like can take in 'Love's Secret Domain,' a group show of a
number of young psychedelics which is at the 3rd Ward Gallery over in
Brooklyn during June and July.
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