Psychedelic Culture

Psychedelic Artist Profile: Pablo Amaringo and the visionary world of ayahuasca art (2026 Update)

There is a moment in Pablo Amaringo's life story that captures everything about who he was. In the 1980s, when researchers Dennis McKenna and Luis Eduardo Luna visited him in the Peruvian Amazon city of Pucallpa, they found him living in poverty, barely scraping by. When they asked if he had ever considered painting his ayahuasca visions — the intensely detailed inner worlds he had witnessed as a healer — he said the thought had never occurred to him. The next day, he handed them two completed paintings. From that single spark, one of the most remarkable careers in visionary art was born.

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Artist Profile: Redondo — Psychedelic Pop Surrealism from Buenos Aires (2026 Update)

Buenos Aires has long been one of Latin America's most creatively fertile cities — a place where European art history, indigenous traditions, and a distinctly Argentine sensibility collide and recombine in unexpected ways. Juan Ángel, the artist known as Redondo, is a product of that environment. His work draws from an unusually wide range of sources — from classical European painters to tattoo art, street murals to digital illustration — and fuses them into something that is unmistakably his own.

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