THE PSYCHEDELIC SHOW
Pat Foley & Nina Lott

As psychedelics gain cultural acceptance and renewed clinical interest, psychedelic art is experiencing a powerful resurgence. Once confined to the fringes of counterculture, its vibrant, surreal, and often spiritually charged visuals are now embraced as a means of expressing the inner landscapes unlocked by these substances. In an era increasingly open to exploring consciousness, healing trauma, and expanding perception, psychedelic art serves as both reflection and guide—a vital aesthetic for a society rethinking its relationship to the mind.

Pat Foley

Pat Foleys contemporary blotter acid art carries forward the legacy of the psychedelic underground at the same time evolving into a sophisticated form of visual storytelling. No longer just a covert delivery system, today’s blotter designs blend sacred symbols, pop culture, and visionary aesthetics to reflect a culture more openly engaging with altered states. As psychedelics move from taboo to therapeutic, these miniature canvases serve both as nostalgic artifacts and contemporary talismans—celebrating the trip not just as a chemical experience, but as an artistic, spiritual, and communal one. Each sheet becomes a kind of psychedelic iconography: portable, collectible, and charged with intention.

Foley’s psychedelic sculpture is a powerful, tactile expression of expanded consciousness. Unlike flat visuals, these works distort space itself—melting icons, warping proportions, and turning familiar figures, like a dripping Mickey Mouse, into surreal relics of a culture in flux. The pedestal becomes unstable, the sacred made strange. In this altered form, sculpture doesn’t just reflect a psychedelic state—it invites viewers to physically navigate it, to question solidity, identity, and meaning in a world where everything, even childhood symbols, can bend, ooze, and transform.

Pat Foley
Pat Foley