Souls Run Deep: San Francisco donation

Thornton Dial

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is receiving 62 works by self-taught African American artists from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation’s William S Arnett Collection in Atlanta. This major acquisition was achieved through a purchase by the Fine Arts Museums and a gift from the Foundation.

The acquisition includes works by 22 artists, including Thornton Dial, Ralph Griffin, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Mary T. Smith, Mose Tolliver and Purvis Young.

The entire acquisition will be shown in a special exhibition Revelations: Art from the African American South, at the De Young section of the Museums in Golden Gate Park.

from June 3, 2017
De Young
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118
www.famsf.org
www.soulsgrowndeep.org

Norbert Kox and Daniel Martin Diaz at La Luz de Jesus

Henriette Zéphir at Collection de l'art brut

Henriette Zéphir

Henriette Zéphir (1920-2012) was a French self-taught artist who worked in ink, coloured pencils and watercolour. She claimed her hand was conducted by an invisible "guide" whose influence she could sense. Organised by the museum's staff curator Anic Zanzi, with assistance from Alain Bouillet, a friend of Zéphir's who knew the artist's body of work well, the exhibition presents the various phases of her vibrant art, from early, randomly patterned abstractions through to the emergence of exuberantly coloured compositions with dramatically shaded, organic forms.

until April 30, 2017
Collection de l'art brut
Av. des Bergières 11 – 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
www.artbrut.ch

Mesmer’s flying machines at Art en Marge

Gustav Mesmer, photo: Hartmaier und Mangold

Institutionalised when only 26, Gustav Mesmer (1903-1994) sketched drawings and plans from his psychiatric hospital. He devised models and developed life-size flying machines that he tested personally. His tireless efforts to fly in the Lauter Valley earned him the nickname “Icarus of Lautertal.” Works in this immersive exhibition are from the Gustav Mesmer Foundation and include machines, original drawings, photographs and film.

February 9 – June 11, 2017 
Art en Marge Musee 314 rue Haute,1000 Brussels, Belgium
www.artetmarges.be

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Featured Artist:
Ben Wilson (b. 1963)

As a child, Ben Wilson regularly carved objects and sculptures out of pieces of found wood and fallen trees. He continued throughout his early life, encouraged by his artistic parents, eventually creating vast carvings in secret corners, some of which are still evident in the parks and woods of North London. Working in woodland allows Wilson to escape the restrictions of the gallery scene, and he is fuelled by his outrage at our erosion of the natural world. Many of his wooden creations and framed carvings appear at locations such as AVAM in Baltimore and the Folk Art Museum in Finland, in addition to his spontaneous urban decorations.

Untitled chewing gum painting, 2006

Sadly, over the years, much of his work in public spaces has been destroyed by vandals. Wilson’s most recent endeavour has been to paint minutely detailed and colourful images on discarded pieces of chewing gum on the pavements of London, each measuring no more than 2/3 ins / 6 cm in diameter. He started experimenting with this medium in 1998, and in 2004 he began to create his gum paintings in earnest. Wilson is constantly looking for ways to escape the controls of the mainstream art world. Taking requests from passers-by for his gum paintings is a way for him to transform rubbish into beauty.

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