⫷⫶ The Archaic Revival ⫶⫸

Today is the book launch of The Archaic Revival Review at Print Room in Rotterdam. Tomorrow June 7th, is the opening reception of The Archaic Revival group exhibition at Zic Zerp gallery curated by Dani Tull. This series features mostly works on paper by 35 artists from Los Angeles, Portland, and Rotterdam. It's been an amazing experience to be a part of this series since 2009. 

The term Archaic Revival is a reference to Terence Mckenna's 1992 book The Archaic Revival: Speculations on Psychedelic Mushrooms, the Amazon, Virtual Reality, UFOs, Evolution, Shamanism, the Rebirth of the Goddess, and the End of History, which hypothesizes that civilization's current state of distress has resulted in a grappling into our collective memory and the "morphic resonance" of our past 3.5 million years for steading metaphors that reconnect us to the entelechy of the planet: the Gaian mind. Terence Mckenna (1946–2000) was an American writer, philosopher, ethnobotanist, mystic and prophet who advocated paths of shamanism and the use of plant-based psychedelics as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness.

The Archaic Revival incorporates a wide array of cultural models and technologies such as shamanism, pantheism, pagan ritual, alchemy and magic as well as the 20th century avant-garde art movements of jazz, surrealism, and cubism (with its glorification of the primitive, modern anthropology). More recently, the expanding power of the internet and new media technologies have also become powerful tools that infuse and ignite ancient and contemporary understandings of tribal connectivity, inspiring a sense of global coherence, along with a brewing notion of a new cyber-mystical domain of "infomysticism" and "techgnosis". Furthermore, indigenous ceremonial medicines once misused as "psychedelic drugs" have become re-contextualized in Western culture as sacramental "entheogens", while tribal festivals, ecstatic dance, and a flourishing awareness of critical environmental issues and sustainable living have reawakened our traditional attitudes toward nature. Perhaps most interestingly, Mckenna's Archaic Revival signifies the eventual breakdown of the pattern of male dominance and hierarchy based on "animal organization," and takes us back to the ideal of a vegetational "Earth Goddess."

Fetal Attraction, the piece I made for this years Archaic Revival exhibition. Below is a sneak peek of my alien fetal stroke mushroom page in The Archaic Revival Review book.
Here are some pieces from the 2013 Archaic Revival exhibition.
Dani Tull
Eddie Ruscha and Astral Eyes aka Owl Eyes 
Brian Cooper
Klea McKenna and Landon Wiggs
Amanda Charchian
Pearl C. Hsiung

http://www.ziczerp.com/exhibition/show/the_archaic_revival_.html


2011's Archaic Revival Group Exhibition 

My piece for the 2011 show was life size, 7x3'! By far the largest painting I've ever made. 
Here are some pieces from the 2011 Archaic Revival exhibition.
Eddie Ruscha & Pearl C. Hsiung 
Jim Shaw
Marnie Weber
Stephen McCarty
Owl Eyes and Charles Irvin
Pentti Monkkonen
Chromium Dumb Belle
Landon Wiggs sculptures to the right
Lovely ladies: Maximilla Lukacs, Miss KK, and Alia Penner/ Chromium Dumb Belle and I 

2009's Archaic Revival exhibition poster art by me and my "Wog on Mayan Temple Toilet." 
This group exhibition took place in Germany at the USCHI KOLB gallery.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

☜☜☮☞☞ The Underground Press ☜☜☮☞☞

The Underground Press was to the youth consciousness revolution of the 1960s and 1970s what the internet is to our global community today: a forum to share ideas, goals, and inspiration. Here are some favorites from a wide variety of sources via Sean Stewart of Babylon Falling who has a book out called "On The Underground" available for sale with over 100 images. 
Here Lies The Myth of American Democracy in Memoriam of All Those Who Have Died.
Rick Griffin

http://babylonfalling.tumblr.com

⩪✺⩪ Alicia Bay Laurel ⩪✺⩪

On my last trip to Kauai I found "The Earth Mass" written in 1973. It was at a secondhand book store in Hanapepe called Talk Story. I was first introduced to Alicia Bay Laurel by my dear friend Amy, Daughter of the Sun. She gifted me her classic, "Living On The Earth" which can be purchased through Alicia's website! Here are some pages from this hard to find gem. The previous owner of this book had a child named Sky Blue who colored along in magic marker. The inside flap also has a sweet handwritten letter. Click on images for enlarged text.

http://www.aliciabaylaurel.com

COUNTRY♀WOMEN

Published in the early 1970s costing only 60¢ a copy, this hand illustrated and typed journal carried this mission:

"We see Country♀Women as a feminist country survival manual and a creative journal. It is for women living with women, with men, and alone, for women who live in the country already and for women who want to move out of the cities. We need to learn all that women can do in the country and learn to break out of oppressive roles and images. We need to reach out of our isolation from one another, to know that we aren’t alone, that we aren’t crazy, that there is a lot of love and strength and growing to share. Country♀Women can bring us together…"

Below are some of my favorites from Volume 1.- Volume 30. via Gravel & Gold's blog.

Here is the Women On The Land: Creating Conscious Community movie trailer.

✲ Drop City ✲

Drop City was a community that took place in Colorado from 1965-1973. It was founded by a group of artists who wanted to rebel and explore communal and sustainable living. The domes were made of 2x4's, bottle caps, and car tops. The invasion of drugs, bikers, and violence led to the world's first geodesic ghost town. 

◇◈◇ Find Your Moral Compass ◇◈◇

Find Your Moral Compass by All That Remains lookbook featuring Nathalie Kelley. 

"With man-made creations as far as the eye can see, All That Remains stands tall with the creation of something personal.
'FIND YOUR MORAL COMPASS' is a discovery of ones true self, falling away from the grids & patterns of society, where the skies are filled with entire galaxies and man still creates with his hands."


Filmed by Johnny Ladd
Music by Lamp of the Universe

♀⪅◯⪆♂ The Source ♀⪅◯⪆♂

Tonight my hubby Stephen McCarty is playing with Mira of White Magic as "The Mother Yod," a special tribute to Ya Ho Wha 13 for the Los Angeles premiere of The Source Family documentary by Jodi Wille at The Standard Hotel.
Photographs of The Source Family & restaurant 


At the premiere I wore my vintage rainbow penis dress and was in awe over Elena Stonaker's embroidered sculpture.
Lounging with Miss KK, & Chad
Below are reviews from the event by the LA Weekly & The Standard.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2013/05/source_family_la_premiere.php
http://www.standardculture.com/posts/7681-All-Hail-Father-Yod

⦿◑ Sanctuary ◐⦿

Lately I've been listening to Dorothy Ashby records and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew which leads me to the amazing psychedelic art of Mati Klarwein. He developed his technique with the guidance of Fernand Léger and Ernst Fuchs. As his work evolved so did his friendships with legends such as Salvador Dali, Jimi Hendrix, and Timothy Leary. Mati left us an open window through which we can still gaze in wonder.  

http://www.matiklarweinart.com