Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NY
William Hawkins
Ricco/Maresca Gallery has released this video celebrating the work of William Hawkins, who they recently exhibited and who was "the beginning" for the gallery.
From this month, Frank Maresca will continue at the helm of the gallery as sole proprietor and creative director. Roger Ricco has decided to step back from his daily gallery activities. Ricco's photography can be viewed at rogerricco.com.
Pure Vision Artist Selected for Comic Award
Pure Vision artist Oscar Azmitia’s work was selected for inclusion in the book The Best American Comics 2017. His Good Haven High series is featured which chronicles his experiences in the public school system as a person with autism.
Founded in 2002 by The Shield Institute, Pure Vision Arts is New York’s first specialised art studio and exhibition space for people with autism and other developmental disabilities.
Pure Vision Arts
114 West 17th Street, Suite 3-R,
New York, NY 10011
www.purevisionarts.org
Galerie Dettinger-Mayer, Lyon
December 2–30, 2017
Galerie Dettinger-Mayer will present the drawings of French self-taught artist Fatima-Azzahra Khoubba in the exhibition "la sécheresse du figuier de barbarie". Khoubba's drawings have become her own personal secret code, with the title of each piece an anagram.
Galerie Dettinger-Mayer, Art Primitif-Art Contemporain
4, place Gailleton, 69002 Lyon, France
www.galerie-dettinger-mayer.com
Don't miss our autumn/fall issue, out now! This packed issue features:
- The new ICA LA shows retrospective of one of Martin Ramirez
- Striking new work by Daniel Martin Diazinspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Evelyn Reyes' reverential and minimal interpretations of every day objects
- Large exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, shows powerful work from Serbia
- Giant scrap-metal sculptures in North Dakota
- Frank Bruno's stunning visionary apocalyptic paintings
- Riera Studio, independent art space in Havana, Cuba
- Beverly Baker's inky lines with luminous blacks and browns
- Plus plenty of Reviews and Raw News
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Featured Artist: Willem Van Genk (1927–2005)
portrait courtesy Mario del Curto
Dutch artist Willem van Genk came from a wealthy family of designers and architects, but he was unable to find a secure career for himself. After a short period working as a second-hand book dealer he began to draw and paint, creating his own monumental urban landscapes, with transport systems, train and trolleybus stations and aircrafts as his central theme. His garish colours and strong lines portray images he found in travel books and magazines, but he also included details of actual journeys he had taken himself. An obsession with Russia and Communism inspired many of his paintings.
courtesy Collection de l’Art Brut;
His early work consists of cityscapes drawn in pencil and black ink. He later developed his own unique collage technique, taking his smaller drawings, sticking them to wrapping paper, canvas or board and cutting out silhouettes, before adding areas of paint and text in different languages. Grids and parallel lines are used to create a claustrophobic and overwhelming sense of perspective. Van Genk gradually drifted away from painting, concentrating on his collection of raincoats and his vast model of a trolleybus station, which he kept with him at his apartment. He was fascinated by power, which he himself never possessed, and the beauty of order.
Willem Van Genk is featured in our Outsider Art Sourcebook, currently half price!