The exhibit, which opened Saturday, brings together some of Southern California’s best contemporary visionary artists
At the Oceanside Museum of Art, the future is here. Sometimes it’s bright and shiny, other times it’s dark and foreboding. Either way, it’s strange and captivating.
“Visionary artists are usually interested in utopian visions and an idealized fantasy world,” he said. “But that has mutated. Right now, we’re in this very interesting place where the visionary artists are making stuff which is visionary from the point of view of alternate intelligences, so the utopian aspect of it is kind of beautiful but disturbing to us, which is really interesting.
“I wanted to capture this idea of a questionable kind of heaven, which isn’t quite what we thought it was going to be … we have come to this place where we’re not sure about what the world looks like in the future. The future has become uncertain and fraught with mutation and strangeness. It’s unfamiliar. We don’t know where we’re going. And so I chose ‘A Kind of Heaven’ because it’s not necessarily our kind of heaven. It’s a different kind of heaven.
“One of my goals is to depict the deep future,” Zirngibl said. “There’s a balance between the structural and the fluid.” The San Diego-based artist calls her colorful art where geometric patterns repeat and flow “scifidelic,” but her inspirations are rooted in the present, and include nature, microbiology, minerals and mathematical fractals.
McReynolds, a devoted Christian, paints his vision of heaven as a place of mystical power and beauty. His pieces include whales floating in the clouds and a glowing tree rising from the ocean. His paintings are often named after the scripture that provided the inspiration. Guy Kinnear also touches on the spiritual in his paintings, inspired by golem, an image that is given life in Jewish folklore. Kinnear, who lives in central California, creates large clay and paper figures and lets them age and crack in the sun. Then he puts them into the landscape and paints them in oil, sometimes setting them on fire.
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