Amodali
liberincarnadine.amodali.co.uk/art.html
www.liberincarnadine.com
Formally trained in Graphics and Illustration at the Liverpool School of Art and Design, Amodali now lectures on these subjects in the U.K.
Exhibition — ‘Liber Incarnadine’ and selected Works:
The featured artworks pulsate with an intricate, yet visceral erotica. Illustrating magical dynamics and parameters of Amodali’s interpretations of alchemy, sex magic and the 156 current. A retrieval of image from liminal, ecstatic, trance states. The pieces are delicately realized collages of photography, illustration and mixed media. Typographic elements underline the conceptual analogue to the interactive aspects of the L.I. Project.
Kineta Chien
Kineta Chien creates mixed-media, sculptural paintings in acylic, wax, clay and found objects. Influenced by spiritual artifacts from many cultures — the reliquaries and altar paintings of medieaval Europe, scultpted walls of tantric temples, Oceanic and African carvings, the sequined flags and bottles of Haitian Vodou — her work investigates the relation between the material and the magical, the point at which the mythic and ancestral worlds penetrate into the outer world. Using esoteric symbolism and correspondence, she explores art as a process by which objects are imbued with talismanic power and spiritual purpose.
Kineta is a practicing ceremonial magician and an initiate of Hatian Vodou.
Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is a ChAOrder Magickian and Baphometic avatar dedicated to the reification of surrealism and the realization of magickal aesthethis via the multi-media of Art/s: Drawing, painting, ritual theatre, film, sculpture, musick…
Hailing from Australia, Orryelle travels, performs and exhibits worldwide. He is an initiated Adinath, Aghori, Thelemite and Voudon Gnostic. Past publications include Conjunctio (Fulgur 08), The Book of Kaos Tarot (iNSPiRALink.), The Choronzom Machine DVD (iNSPiRALink.), SilKMilK MagiZain #1–4 (editor and contributor), plus contributions to various publications such as XVI (Scarlet Imprint ’10), Hecate: Her Sacred Fires (Avalonia ’10), Liber Malorum (Paganarchy Press ’07), Dreamflesh 1 (Dreamflesh Press), ATUA (Fulgur ’11).
Orryelle is having a good harvest this year with several much-delayed projects seeing manifestation: Coagula from Fulgur (Feb) — the Gold Book of his Tela Quadrivium alchymic fourfold bookweb; The Book of Going Back by Night (May?) trade edition; and the 156=Musick CD via the Polish label Zoharum, a global collective project of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the Silver Dusk, a group of artist-magicians which he instigated.
At the EBC 2011, Orryelle will be presenting a selection of original work (with several prints also available) from Coagula and the next volume of the Tela Quadrivium, Solve (due 2012). Works from this Black Book are experiments in new mediums for the artist (lo-res preview example, ‘Hecate Triformis’, shown here).
Additionally, Orryelle will be presenting a complex sculptural installation especially for the EBC, involving a Solve-ing and Coagula-ting life-size statue. As well as being on exhibition in various transmutated forms throughout the weekend, this piece will also feature in a special two-part performance with Music and Ritual Theatre at the end of each day’s presentations, re-contextualizing myths of Orpheus and the Maenads. Full details of this special event will be added to the EBC site later…
In Nomine Msenomyne
Maria Dolorosa de la Cruz
www.paraphiliamagazine.com/gallery/main.php (Paraphilia magazine gallery)
dolorosa-reveries.blogspot.com (blog The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus)
www.society.kosmic-gnosis.org/art.html (S.V.G. gallery)
Dolorosa is an esoteric artist born in Salto, Uruguay, now living and working in Dublin Ireland.
Drawing is her main framework for esoteric experiments in weaving symbol and language. She uses line work to evoke living flows, rhythms of energy to channel spirits and to wander indefinitely along the endless paths of quests with focus and devotion.
Her influences are many from the literature of the surrealists especially from compatriot Isidore Ducasse, and from Unica Zurn to the occult art of Austin Osman Spare and Stefi Grant. Their willful playfulness and techniques, which consist of personal magical languages made from rituals, anagrams, automatic writings and drawings, have shaped her path and have laid a great framework for her own magical workings.
She is a member of La Société Voudon Gnostique (S.V.G.) and has had her work published in Abraxas, (Fulgur), SilkMIlk 4, and in the forthcoming ATUA: Voices from La Société Voudon Gnostique (Fulgur).
Her online works can be seen at Paraphilia magazine art gallery and at her blog, The Cabinet of the Solar Plexus.
Patrick Larabee
“I am practitioner of the Sabbatic Mysteries as a Walker of the Lonely Road. My personal work is concerned with practices of Traditional Witchcraft and Sorcery. I am an artist and writer who seeks to bring to light the Mysteries of the Darkness through Image and Word, Rite and Praxis. I wish to share the Knowledge of the Heart of the Soul in Love with the All. I seek to depict the place where the Soul meets Body, the In-Between Realm where the Flesh and the Spirit co-mingle to create the Dreaming: the Vast Projections of the All-Luminous and Darkly-Burning Self. What I give is a distillation of Mystic Experience, a Retort-full of the Heavenly Gnostic Numina; a Gift from the Holy Sorcerous Daemonic Host: the Gods and Spirits of the Witch-Blood, to us, the Children of the Serpent.”
Joshua Madara
Joshua is an electronic thaumaturge in Seattle, Washington, exploring the expression and augmentation of magic through technology. He publishes online demonstrations of multimedia interactions for magic at hyperRitual.com, and instructs classes in computer-assisted and computer-based magics at Arcanorium College.
Electronomicon: The Book of Electric Names
The Electronomicon is an electronic grimoire, a physical computing interface for electro-magical machine-spirits, that may challenge our assumptions about and distinctions between channeled and constructed entities, and trivial and non-trivial machines. It will be shown for the first time at this year’s Esoteric Book Conference.
Denny Sargent
Denny Sargent (a.k.a.: Aion 131, Hermeticusnath), author, instructor and practicing Eclectic Ritualist, for several decades has been a ceramic artist incorporating a variety of ancient and contemporary esoteric symbols, glyphs, and archetypes into his ceramic vessels and sculptures. His current gallery representations include Stargazer’s Store & Gallery in Bellevue; Shoreline/LFP Art Gallery in Shoreline; and Oasis Gallery in Wallingford.
“In all my work I am combining completely new sacred alphabets and original images/sigils as well as traditional glyphs and symbols from ancient sources to create new and powerful sacred objects. Sacred Yoni Vessels have existed in every culture since the dawn of time, and the bowl or pot itself has often been a simple yet primal image of the genetrixor goddess in most cultures. The Sacred Vessels in this show utilize original images and sigils and as well as integrating symbols and glyphs from a variety of ancient traditions. A majority of the stamps used in my work are based on my own created glyphs and sacred alphabets. All these Vessels have a sacred and magickal aspect or purpose to them as well as an aesthetic one. The mate of the Yoni Vessel is the Lingam. Lingams (Lings) are a shape of power, creation and fertility that have been used in rituals and worship from the dawn of prehistory until now in all root cultures. The term comes from Hindu/Tantric iconography, and in this system the Ling is an image of SHIVA, often related to a phallus (usually set within a yoni). As a mystic and artist I am fascinated with these shapes as a focused and unique canvas for my archetypes, symbols, sigils and compositions in general. For years I have been creating large sacred vessels; my Sacred Ling series is both inspired by and compliments the Sacred Yoni Vessels. Together, they birth something new… Our studio site has links to many galleries of my work and a few surprises: sargentstudios.org.”
Denny will also have at least one book signing at this year’s conference.
Gabriela Sarna
Gabriela Sarna is an enthusiast and student of the Spirit World and the many manifestations it allows through art, healing and magic. With a deep dedication to honoring the Guardians of the Land and the Ancestors, her work continues to expand within the traditions of European Witchery, Oracular Craft and Shamanism.
As an artist, Gabriela’s main focus is to stay an open vessel for the forms and faces that emerge from the mists in a visual representation of the hidden world. Through listening to the whispers of the Beings that Arrive and awaken the desire to be shown, a relationship is formed that extracts the details and format of the final design.
This current body of work: “Guardians of the Heart Most Sacred,” is a journey and exploration of the subtle and fierce yearnings for the divine Heart within that connects to and calls forth Angels, Beasts and Familiars who watch over the portals between flesh and spirit. The intent of each of these paintings is to introduce some of the Guardians as well as to act as a portal that takes one deeper into the realms they reside in.
Daniel Schulke
Daniel Schulke is an artist working primarily in oil on canvas. Using the iconography of hermeticism, witchcraft and cults of spirit-possession, his images depict sensorial phantasmagoria arising from ecstatic states of magical practice. Images in the current exhibition were painted in conjunction with the reificatory cycle of his latest book Lux Hæresis which concerns the magical translocation of the senses, within and outside the body. His images draw primarily from the symbology of the medieval witches’ sabbat and encrypt varied arcana of its folk-sorcery. Since 2000 he has served as co-director of Xoanon Limited, sole publisher of the magical order Cultus Sabbati, a sodality of traditional witchcraft initiates in Britain and North America.
Liv Rainey-Smith
Artist Liv Rainey-Smith specializes in hand-pulled woodcut prints. Her bold figure-oriented imagery draws upon visions from Enochian and Qlippothic work, Gnosticism, nightmares, history and fiction. Rainey-Smith’s process incorporates a mixture of traditional and modern tools as well as a blend of European and Japanese printmaking technique. She prints primarily in small editions and is earning a reputation for the fine quality of her printing as well as her unique style. She received her BFA in 2008 from the Oregon College of Art and Craft and has been a professional member of Print Arts Northwest since 2010. Liv was born in Moab, Utah, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.
Benjamin A. Vierling
Benjamin A. Vierling was born in 1974, and has been evoking arcane imagery since he could hold a brush. He studied the Renaissance painting technique of mixing egg tempera and oil pigments with Phillip Rubinov Jacobson in Reichenau, Austria, and currently works from his California Atelier in a Gold Rush era convent. Specializing in mythical portraiture and Vanitas themes, his paintings are exhibited and collected internationally. He is represented by the Strychnin Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
Vierling’s illustration work has appeared in a wide variety of occult and metaphysical contexts including, illuminated horoscopes, ritual music album covers, and alchemical treatises. Among the pieces exhibited at the Esoteric Book Conference are the original pen and ink drawings for Jocus Severus, published by Ouroboros Press, 2011, as well as the paintings used for the highly acclaimed alchemical books by Robert Allen Bartlett, Real Alchemy and The Way of the Crucible, published by Ibis Press, 2009.
Markus Wolff
Markus Wolff grew up in Germany and Austria before coming to Southern California in his early teens. The influences from European culture and art which he absorbed during his childhood continue to inform his creations. In the late 80s, Wolff embarked on a program of college sculpture classes and soon specialized in lost wax bronze casting and glass casting. The work from this period was exhibited in San Diego in 1994 and in San Francisco in 1995. Concurrently, Wolff was a founding member of the percussion heavy performance group Crash Worship (1986), and designed many of their posters and merchandise as well as most of their record and CD packages. After two European and numerous US tours, Wolff left the band in 1996 to move to Portland and concentrate on new projects. Using the moniker “Heidnischwerk” (heathen works), he started work on a series of works deities from Norse and Germanic religion and mythology. Sculptures and drawings from this project were first exhibited in Portland in 1999.
In 2005, he exhibited in and helped curate a group Heathen Art show with artists from across the continent and beyond (more information). A drawing of the goddess Sif appeared on the cover of the first issue of Hex magazine. In the last few years, he has drawn a series of Norse inspired T-Shirt designs for the company November Fire. He has also executed cover art and graphics for such underground acts as Soriah, Daniel Menche, Lasher Keen, Agalloch, L’Acephale, and Neurot Recordings. When possible, he has devotes time to his music project Waldteufel (Forest Devil), which has released three albums and several singles.
“My work is an ongoing attempt to forge a connection that reaches from the most ancient origins of my ancestors’ creative spark to the present and beyond, as well as an an effort to explore and communicate a mythic world view. The works are symbolic way markers on my path through this world and often draw from dreams and visions. In this endeavor, I place a high value in craftsmanship and its role in shaping art. I prefer to use traditional forms and materials as a way to immerse myself in the subject matter, while often drawing from the immense well of Symbolism and folk arts.”