Jon Serl at The Good Luck Gallery, Los Angelesuntil August 26, 2018 The paintings of New York self-taught artist Jon Serl (1894–1993) are as worn, nuanced, and unexpected as the man himself. Painted on found boards, they travelled with him for years and depict scenes from his multifarious and troubled life. In “Jon Serl: The Hawk of Elsinore”, The Good Luck Gallery presents the paintings of Serl in partnership with the Tartaglia Collection and in affiliation with Cavin-Morris Gallery, for an exhibition curated by Randall Morris. The Good Luck Gallery Outsider Art Tour in NW GeorgiaSaturday August 18, 2018 The Outsider Art Trail Tour, an inaugural self-guided tour through NW Georgia art environments Paradise Garden and Calhoun Rock Garden, will be held on Saturday, August 18. Local art galleries Folk America Gallery, Finster Framing & Art Gallery and Vision Art Gallery, all in Summerville GA, will be participating. Howard Finster: World Folk Art Church at Paradise Garden Galerie Atelier Herenplaats, Rotterdamuntil August 24, 2018 "KEIHARDE KUNST" at Galerie Atelier Herenplaats features artworks by self-taught artists Pieter Zandvliet and Hein Dingemans. Galerie Atelier Herenplaats
Hein Dingemans Fragmented Minds, Belfastuntil July 29, 2018 Last couple of days to see "The Fragmented Mind" which actively confronts the issue of mental health through the work of multiple artists. The multi-faceted project examines perceptions and experiences of mental illness and the current state of mental health provision in Northern Ireland. The MAC
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Raw Vision 98 Article PreviewEVELYNE POSTIC AUTHOR: ALLA CHERNETSKA Circonvolutions (Convolutions), 2017, ink on Nepal paper, 16.25 x 11.3 ins. / 41 x 29 cm Evelyne Postic’s artistic life began after she reached 30 years old, but the intensity with which she has created art for the last three decades stems from her childhood. Born Evelyne Mazaloubaud in Lyon, France, in 1951, she grew up in neglect and was abandoned by her parents during their divorce. Postic escaped with paper and coloured pencils into her grandparents’ kitchen, where from a window she watched coloured water flow from a nearby dyehouse into the drains. In her youth, her passion was dancing. She applied to the dance school at the Lyon Opera House, but was turned down. This was a disaster for her, and it was followed by another: at the age of five, Postic fell ill with a major pulmonary infection, and underwent a torturous treatment that was practiced in those days. Subsequently, lungs were to feature heavily, in multiple forms, in her drawings, as important “characters”. La Vierge Serpent (The Serpent Virgin), 2014, ink on craft paper, 11.6 x 8.25 ins. / 30 x 21 cm As a teenager Postic wanted to study at the École des Beaux-Arts, but her mother opposed it. Life went on, and at 18 years old she married and started a family, putting artistic exploration to the side until she went through a new upheaval in her life. In 1989, at the age of 30, Postic divorced her husband and moved to Grenoble with her three children, where she began to make her first drawings and canvases. This practice allowed her to escape the realities of everyday life. Her first works, painted on different media, were quite graphic. Surrounded by black contour, they resembled stained-glass windows. The large eyes and prominent mouths, painted in profile, demonstrated her interest in Africa, and its people and culture. From the beginning, Postic’s hybrid forms combined human, plant and animal in perpetual transformation. Just as Postic faced challenges in life, her characters adapted to their environment to survive. Les Samourailles [sic] (The Samurai), 2017, ink on washed paper, 9.1 x 6.6 ins. / 23 x 17 cm Postic has always been passionate about science, especially biology and the metamorphosis of living beings into the process of evolution of species. Just as nature creates a multitude of forms, Postic creates her various forms inspired by her dreams and pain. She also devotes herself to sculpture that she will develop all her life by experimenting with the variety of materials like papier mâché, carved black wood, polystyrene, paper, glue, iron, concrete and seashells. Since 1990, her work has been exhibited by Galerie des 4 Coins, Rouanne, France, by L’Oiel de Boeuf Gallery, Paris, and in the 1994 exhibition “Les Jardiniers de la Mémoire” (The Gardeners of Memory) at the Musée de la Création Franche in Bégles where her work also entered their collection. Her work is held at the collections of the Musée l’Art en Marche in Lapalisse and Cérès Franco in Lagrasse. In 1998, Postic was invited to participate in a collective exhibition in New York. The American mega-city that hosts diasporas from all over the world inspired her to create large-scale works on immigration. Hoping to start a new life, people arrive needing to face the problems of survival in a new country. Thus, the artist returns to her reflections on the adaptation of a living being to the surrounding environment. Un Nuage Adoucit le Ciel (A Cloud Softens the Sky), 2009, ink on canvas, 47.25 x 39.5 ins. / 120 x 100 cm Postic returned to Lyon in 2006 and entered the Dettinger-Mayer gallery, who specialise in contemporary drawing and primitive arts. This initiated a new stage in her artistic life as she started to exhibit new drawings of black ink on canvas. Although she often works with a lot of colour, which is more of an instinctive than a symbolic choice, sometimes she returns to monochromatic painting as if to free herself from emotional charge. In doing this, in her drawings of this time she exorcised the fears from her subconscious. Read the rest of this article in Raw Vision 98, out now! |