Exhibitions
Our curatorial practice centers on the intersections of art and esoteric study, creating exhibitions that function as both aesthetic experiences and philosophical explorations.
We approach exhibitions as living laboratories—sites where contemporary artists engage ancient systems of knowledge, and where viewers are invited to consider how alchemical, spiritual, and metaphysical traditions continue to shape the imaginative life of the present.
Through thoughtful curation and interdisciplinary collaboration, our exhibitions foster environments in which transformation, inquiry, and creative experimentation can flourish.
Kwonyin and Patrick Mansfield, The Work of the Sun, Flower Head, Los Angeles, CA, 2021, photograph by Eliza Swann.
In 2021, the exhibition The Work of the Sun, curated by Eliza Swann, took place at Flower Head in Los Angeles. This exhibition, rooted in Swann’s alchemical teachings in the Alchemical Imagination course she leads, presented sound, visual, and performance works. Participating artists—Jesse Carsten, Mario Diaz de Leon, Diva Dompé, Kwonyin, Rachel Jones, Brendan Landis, Ox Art, Patrick Mansfield, Sarah Manuwal, and Maria Molteni—engaged with the solar archetype through experimental sound, ritual performance, and material investigation. The resulting works offered audiences an experience of the sun not simply as a celestial body, but as an active philosophical engine: a force of enlightenment, purgation, ignition, and profound imaginative power.
The following year, the exhibition Boiling & Divine: Art and Alchemy with the Golden Dome School, also curated by Eliza Swann, was presented at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles in 2022. This exhibition, likewise rooted in Swann’s alchemical teachings and the Alchemical Imagination course, brought together artworks and lectures inspired by alchemical symbolism, emphasizing how contemporary visual and performance practices can illuminate processes of transmutation, dissolution, and renewal. Featured artists included Syd Buffman, Jesse Carsten, Josie Close, Elizabeth Huey, Sarah Manuwal, Mollie McKinley, Samantha Rehark, and Carolina Mariana Rodriguez, with performances by Diva Dompé, Kwonyin, and Patrick Mansfield. Through painting, object-based work, sound, and live performance, Boiling & Divine created a space where ancient alchemical teachings resonated through contemporary artistic sensibilities, highlighting the enduring potency of these symbolic systems.
