A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit brings together an intergenerational group of artists to examine how magical pratices have informed queer artists and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The artists on view seek alternate forms of spiritual connections outside repressive homophobic and transphobic traditions, utilize sexuality as a sacred transformational power, and call on magic to initiate new forms of connection, community, daily life, and desire. 

The practices and histories covered in this exhibition are expansive, ranging from Western occult and Hermetic traditions, Christian mysticism, Neo-pagan witchcraft and goddess worship, forms of divination, and Shamanism originating in Afro and Indigenous traditions. Many artists explore a variety of spiritual traditions and construct through their work idiosyncratic and intricate worlds of mystical creation. 

As articulated by poet and theorist Gloria Anzaldúa, “spirituality is a source of sustenance, a way of knowing, a path of survival.”