André Robillard in Montpellier, France
until September 30, 2017
French self-taught artist André Robillard is the last living member of Dubuffet's original art brut collection. He is famous for his guns, spaceships and sputniks made from salvaged trash such as food tins, lightbulbs, pieces of wood, plastic piping and metal bars, assembled with adhesive tape and wire. The exhibition includes a large-scale installation, Robillard's depiction of "La Station Spatiale Mir", created from 1999-2000 and recently exhibited at CNES in Paris.
Le Musée Art Brut de Montpellier
1 rue Beau Séjour, 34000 Montpellier, France
atelier-musee.com
JB Murray at Shrine, NYC
until May 14, 2017
"J.B. Murray: Visions from the Sun" at Shrine, NYC, is a solo exhibition of drawings and abstract spiritual texts by the self-taught artist John Bunion Murray (1908-1988). Murray was an African American farmer who lived in rural Glascock County, Georgia.
J.B. Murray began to create in his seventies following the onset of what he believed to be direct spiritual transmissions from God as well as the spirits of his deceased relatives and he developed his own secret script that only he could decipher.
Shrine
191 Henry Street, NYC 10002
shrine.nyc
Seymour Rosen in San Jose, CA
until May 19, 2017
Pioneering Los Angeles photographer Seymour Rosen (1935-2006) documented street scenes and popular culture from the 1960s onward and his work provides a portrait of mid-century Los Angeles in all its grandeur and grit. Rosen was one of the first people to seriously document outsider environments in California and was involved in the struggle to save the Watts Towers from destruction by the LA authorities. He founded SPACES – Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the study and conservation of environments created by self-taught and non-mainstream artists and builders. This will be the only West Coast exhibition of the material which will be subsequently transferred to the Kohler Foundation in
Wisconsin.
Natalie And James Thompson Art Gallery
Art Building #127, 1 Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95122
www.sjsu.edu/art/places/thompsongallery
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