The Outsider Art Fair continues until 7 February, with in-person exhibitions open through Sunday.
Left: Who Is The Desperate Heart Of Daniel Johnston, Johnston (1994). Ink and marker on paper,
27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8.5 in.)
Right: Speeding Motorcycle, Johnston (1984). Ink and marker on paper, 27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8.5 in.) OAF Curated Space: Daniel Johnston: Psychedelic Drawings
Electric Lady Studios, 52 West 8th St. Curated by Gary Panter, this year's OAF Curated Space will be held at the renowned Greenwich Village recording Mecca founded by Jimi Hendrix in 1969, where a solo exhibition of drawings by outsider musician and artist Daniel Johnston (1961–2019) are on display.
Spotted Dog, Bill Traylor (c. 1939–42). Poster paint and pencil on cardboard, 17.15 x 26 cm
(6.75 x 10.25 in.) To Be Human: The Figure in Self-Taught Art
Hirschl & Adler, 41 East 57th Street, 9th Fl. Features works by some of the most beloved artists in the field, including Morton Bartlett, James Castle, Henry Darger, James Edward Deeds, Mose Tolliver and also Bill Traylor.
Group exhibitions require a collective, paid admission ticket. Information regarding access to the online fair and the $15.00 entry ticket may be found on the Outsider Art Fair’s website (www.outsiderartfair.com).
Steve Powers:
Winter 2021 CatalogueSteven S. Powers is pleased to present the Winter 2021 Catalogue:
"The Design His Own". This 156-page online catalog features recent finds in Outsider and Self-Taught Art with a few additions of American Folk Art, including works by Carlo Zinelli, John Kane, Joseph Roth, Richard Nisbett, Moses Ogden, George Silsbee, etc.
Indian Encampment, attr. Richard Nisbett (c. 1822). Watercolour on paper mounted, 33. x 19.7 cm
(13 x 7.7 in.)
Left: Twisted Head, Moses Ogden (c. 1900). Wood carving, 24.13 x 11.43 x 15.24 cm (9.5 x 4.5 x 6 in.)
Right: Without Thorns (A Rose), Ray Materson (1994). Unraveled socks, 6.35 x 6.35 cm (2.5 x 2.5 in.), framed: 32.4 x 29.2 cm (12.75 x 11.5 in.) Original works span over 500 years. Highlights include a watercolor, dated 1822, which is likely the earliest American asylum drawing in private hands and attributed to Richard Nisbett, two extraordinary embroideries by Joseph Roth, works by American self-taught master John Kane, a collection of works by Moses Ogden, a 17th century silver pomander in the shape of a skull, and a remarkable 16th century tooled leather case in the form of an African-European man. Discover more at StevenSPowers.com.
Museum of Arts and Science:
Anxiety MasksJanuary 29 through June 26, 2021The Museum of Arts and Science in Macon, Georgia, presents Masked Anxiety, an exhibition of soft sculptures adorned with embroidery, beads, and textiles address psychological issues related to the
COVID19 pandemic and civil unrest.
Top left: Beaded Janus mask
Top centre: She is Always Looking Behind traveling sculpture
Top right: Bunny Up/Bunny Down mask Bottom left: Together But Separate mask
Bottom right: Round Dream mask Florida-based artist Linda Hall creates surfaces that capture beauty and humor yet reveal the compulsive process of adornment. This series explores unanswerable questions such as "What holds us together?" and "Who are we as individuals and as a country?" By covering the entire face, differences such as race, gender, and economic status dissolve into a shared
experience.
Mask combinations (left to right): Flower Hurricane mask, Double Braids mask, Wary Liberty mask “With the worsening pandemic and eruptions around race it was hard to be idle,” said Hall. Posing questions like ‘What holds us together?’ and ‘Who are we as individuals and as a country?’ conflated the artist’s dark internal dialogue with her love of beauty. The complexities of 2020 “set the stage for finding
comfort in handmade masks.”
Learn more about Linda and her masks at www.masmacon.org/masked-anxiety and also anxietymasks2020.blogspot.com.
abcd / ART BRUT short film:
Purvis YoungBruno Decharme, founder of the abcd Art Brut Collection based in Paris, has created a series of documentary films on art brut artists; this week, we would like to highlight the work of Purvis Young.
"Le hangar de Purvis Young" (2016), Bruno Decharme Purvis Young left school at the age of sixteen and became involved in crime. Incarcerated for four years, he discovered painting which would become from then on his only passion. Once free, he piled up thousands of his works in a warehouse which served as his shelter.
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