Art Gallery

Current Featured Artists Exhibition: Garin Horner & Christine Reising – Two Tarot Visions

An exhibition of two Tarot card collections, created in two different processes, photography and printmaking.

About The Wonder Workers: A Major Arcana Tarot Series

Wonder workers are people who perform miracles or astonishing acts. The Wonder Worker major arcana Tarot cards contain portraits of people who fall into these categories. The cards started as monotype prints that were created on a soft plate with acrylic paints. Each print started with an inkjet transfer using imagery related to the person and concept of the Tarot card. Conceptually, this series was initiated by the discovery of the French mystic and healer Nizier Anthelme Philippe. I found him, or perhaps he found me, while researching a trip to Provence. I discovered that his grave was located in the Loyasse Cemetery in Lyon, first on my itinerary. Cemeteries are a vital part of travel for me as they are the repositories of the history and culture of a location. After arriving at a series focusing on mystics, I was then inspired to seek out others from France and eventually broadened my search to include additional countries and periods.

Of course, Maitre Philippe became my Magician.

About the Crowley & Waite Victorian Tarot Deck

In many ways The Crowley-Waite Victorian Tarot deck is unique among the vast assortment of tarot card decks. Though the deck’s imagery is modeled after the enduring Rider-Waite-Colman-Smith deck, the pictures on the cards are photorealistic. Some of the photos, like the Hanged Man, have also been reimagined to expand their metaphorical and symbolic meanings. The design concept for the card’s imagery is based on vintage cabinet cards, Victorian era photographs widely produced across the U.S. and Europe.

The pictures are a fusion of real vintage cabinet card portraits, late 19th-century landscape photos, and the photographic art and design of Garin Horner.  Photoshop is used to stitch the composites together. Note: all sourced photographs are in the public domain and copyright-free.

In addition, the deck features historical figures, including the namesakes of this deck: the famed occultist Aleister Crowley and the scholarly mystic Arthur Edward Waite. Among the portraits in the major and minor arcana, Horner highlighted many mystics and occultists, both real and fabled. Doing so, he fabricated remarkable photo-realistic imagery that stirs the imagination and awakens a reader’s intuition.