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David Butler at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI
until September 2017
In Shelter: David Butler, Leslie Umberger collaborates in exploring relationships between the art environment of David Butler and the work of southern African American quiltmakers.
Included in the exhibition are works by Butler from the Arts Center’s collection and on loan from the American Folk Art Museum, and improvisational quilts dating from the first half of the twentieth century by unknown makers on loan from the collection of Corrine Riley.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Ave, Sheboygan, WI 53081
www.jmkac.org
Tramp Art at Museum of International Folk Art, NM
Tramp art birdcage (US), photo Paul Hester
until September, 2018
No Idle Hands: The Myths & Meanings of Tramp Art presents more than 150 examples of tramp art from the US and around the world. Tramp art is a style of woodworking from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that made use of discarded cigar boxes and fruit crates, notched and layered to make a variety of domestic objects.
MUSEUM OF INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART
706 Camino Lejo, On Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM 87505
www.internationalfolkart.org
Adamson Collection at Birkbeck, London
J.P. Sennitt
until July 25, 2017
Mr A Moves in Mysterious Ways: Selected Artists from the Adamson Collection tells the story of art-therapy pioneer Edward Adamson’s use of art as a therapeutic tool. This exhibition displays works by eight people, chosen for their distinctive visual styles and particular histories.
Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, School of Arts
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
www.bbk.ac.uk
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Featured Artist: Michel Nedjar (b.1947)
Born into an immigrant Jewish tailor’s family, Michel Nedjar spent his childhood mesmerised by the clothes and materials abundant at the family residence near Paris. When he was 13 he saw a documentary about the Holocaust which affected him deeply.
portrait: Bertrand Reiger, Michel Nedjar
above: Untitled, n.d., Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Anthony Petullo, 2012, photo John R. Gelmbi
Leaving school early in 1962, he trained as a tailor, then, following compulsory military service when he spent time in a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis, he travelled to Mexico in the first of many voyages abroad. He was fascinated by the vivid colours of the Mexican dolls and began to create his own versions on his return. Working on his grandmother’s market stall, Nedjar made use of any remnants or found materials to create clothed figures and animals. His rag dolls were initially figurative but soon became more abstract and grotesque in style.
Wall of Travel Dolls in the Michel Nedjar, introspective exhibition at the LaM,
Villeneuve d’Ascq (France), photo N. Dewitte/LaM
His powerful paintings are produced on all possible surfaces, from canvas to envelopes. They are normally of a dark, shadowy quality, giving the subjects of man and beast an almost sinister character. Nedjar was a founding member of l’Aracine, the leading French art brut collection, now housed in the Musée d’Art Moderne Lille Métropole. He is also a successful experimental filmmaker and he received national recognition at the Pompidou Centre in 1987.
Image courtesy Michel Nedjar
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