July 30 2021 #227
Slotin Auction
August 7-8, 2021
Howard Finster
Slotin's second Annual Summer Fun Folk Art and Paradise Garden Fundraiser Auction includes 688 Lots of Self-Taught Art, Outsider Art, Southern Folk Pottery, Quilts & Contemporary Folk Art. Proceeds from many of the items in this sale will benefit the good work being done to preserve and share Howard Finster's Paradise Garden.
Online catalogue available here.
Virtual flipbook here.
Clementine Hunter
Preview: August 2-6 - 9am-5pm112 E. Shadburn Ave. Buford, GA
The Auction will NOT be open on Auction Day.
John Cornbread Anderson
More info at www.slotinfolkart.com.
New Show at Fountain House Gallery, New York
until August 25, 2021
Laurel Burns
The element of water can be friend or foe - manifesting in forms ranging from tranquil streams to terrifying tsunamis. This group show, titled "Water", presents more than 30 works exploring the mystery, beauty, and power of this force of nature and marks Fountain House Gallery's first "in-person" event since before the pandemic began.
More info at www.fountainhousegallery.org.
Henry Darger Exhibition at Intuit, Chicago IL
until September 6, 2021
Image: Henry Darger, Collection of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, © 2021 Kiyoko Lerner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art presents "Methods and Manipulations", the second of three exhibitions in the series Henry Darger: The Room Revealed, which draws upon the Henry Darger Room Collection and Archive to explore questions about the author and artist’s life and work. The exhibitions experiment with different ways to present information and may range from audio components to tactile objects.
More at www.art.org.
Art Car Photos by Fred Scruton
Fred Scruton shares photographs from a recent visit to Art Car World in Douglas, Arizona and the Dwarf Car Museum in Maricopa, Arizona.
Harrod Blank's Art Car World in-progress, in Douglas, Arizona
Space Junk: Art Car World in Douglas, Arizona
Love 23: Art Car World in Douglas, Arizona
Ernie Adams' Dwarf Car Museum in Maricopa, Arizona
Ernie Adams, (handmade) Dwarf Car Museum in Maricopa, Arizona
See more of Scruton's art car photos here.
Galerie Polysémie, Marseille
until August 21, 2021
Galerie Polysémie presents group exhibition "Hors des sentiers battus" ("Off the Beaten Track").
Davide Cicolani, courtesy Galerie Polysémie
More at www.polysemie.com.
Artist Highlight:
Marie Paccou
"TOCQUEVILLE"
Marie Paccou has spent the last six years scribbling in books to make brilliant flipbooks. Her work has been shown in European cinematheques, French libraries and an Austrian feminist festival. Check out her other flipbooks here.
Since the global pandemic, Paccou has also been frantically drawing unique optical toys on paper plates and on umbrellas.
More at www.instagram.com/mariepaccou.
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