Psychedelic Art by Women Artists

Think of psychedelic art. What comes to mind? Maybe you think of intense, swirling colors, rainbow mushrooms, or fractal patterns. Perhaps you think of R. Crumb, Pink Floyd, or Salvador Dalí. Of course LSD, psilocybin, and other mind-altering drugs have been an integral part of the genre since its advent in the 1960s.

But psychedelia is not limited to rainbows, mushrooms and rock operas. Drugs may not even be necessary. In The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley describes a profound, simple experience of being on mescalin:

I saw the books, but was not at all concerned with their positions in space. What I noticed, what impressed itself upon my mind, was the fact that all of them glowed with living light and that in some the glory was more manifest than in others.

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