Surrealsight Gallery is an online art gallery specializing in "visionary" surrealism, aka Visionary Art, produced in California beginning at the time of “The Summer of Love”, and continuing to this very day. It is based in San Francisco, California, and a walk-in gallery is planned in the future.
“Visionary Art is concerned with spiritual transformation, with multi-leveled realities, and with events and worlds that are metaphors for awakening minds. These concerns, as they came to be manifested in visual form, can be described as Visionary- defined here as "inspired revelation".
“The term "Visionary," could also be defined as a "Meta-Reality"-meaning above and beyond, or a higher reality than which we ordinarily perceive with a dualistic, self-oriented consciousness”.
“The common bond which unites the various factions and styles of Visionary artists is a metaphysical point of view”.
“Visionary Art offers a more cosmic view of things, and it points the way to deeper levels and broader vistas within man and nature. Visionary artists practice their art as a process of meditation, and as a kind of spiritual therapy, seeking to transform themselves and others."
-Norman Stiegelmeyer (1937-1984) Artist, Author, Educator (Visionary Art, by Norman Stiegelmeyer, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, copyright 1981)
"It was in and around San Francisco at the beginning of this decade (1970's) that the first public presence of new visionary art was felt. I was seeing a kind of art evolving out of a way of life, an art totally apart from the mainstream of the modernist art theory and practice, in which so many of us have been schooled. I was seeing contemporary art not so much immersed in itself as engaged in an ongoing dialogue with life, accessible by virtue of its shared humanity, rather than by an academic indoctrination."
-Walter Hopps (1932-2005) Former Curator 20th Century American Art National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
(Visions, Pomegranate Publications, copyright 1977)
More on Visionary Art at these sites:
Alex Grey
http://www.alexgrey.com/essay/whatis.html
Michael Bell
http://www.nansealove.com/michaelbell.html
Laurence Caruana
http://visionaryrevue.com/webtext/manifesto.contents.html