January 15 2021     #199

Fountain House Gallery exhibition:

Come On Home

Come on Home is an exhibition of visual representations of interior and exterior space. The show, which examines the ways in which perceptions of everyday surroundings have been impacted by the pandemic lockdown, will be live online from January 15, 2021, through February 17, 2021.

Springtime in Kyoto, Japan, Raymond Lopez (2019). Watercolor on paper, 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24 in.)

The exhibition is curated by the founders and principals of Summertime Gallery, a nonprofit art studio and gallery located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that champions a more inclusive art world where artists with and without intellectual disabilities create and display work alongside one another. Summertime connects neurodiverse artists with the people and world around them, providing a platform to tell their stories, show their work, and generate income.

Paint, Barry Senft (2019). Acrylic on canvas, 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

Nye and Company auction:

Estate Treasures

Join Nye & Co. online for their Estate Treasures Auction on January 20 & 21, 2021. The sale will feature a curated selection of fine and decorative Arts as well as some folk art and sculptures. Bidding can be done online, in absentia or by telephone. You can view all lots by appointment only during our public exhibition located at the Nye & Co. gallery on 20 Beach Street.

Left: Lot 260: The Hostile, depicting a cowboy and Indian, one signed John D. Young (1992). Carved & painted articulated folk sculptures; Cowboy: 46 x 11.5 x 24 in. Indian: 41 x 18.25 x 18 in.
Right: Lot 721: Carved bone and pine sailor-decorated pipe, unknown artist (19th C.). Carved wood on a later stand, 5.75 in. long

Lot 244: Carved and painted alligator, Leroy Archuleta (20th C.). Wooden sculpture, 43 x 5.4 in.

Christie's auction:

Outsider and Vernacular Art

On Thursday 21 January, join Christie's for an incredible auction of outsider and vernacular art, which features masterpieces by the category’s top artists as well as significant works by up-and-coming names in the field.

The sale is led by multiple drawings by iconic artist Bill Traylor, Untitled (Tunnels and Train) by Martin Ramirez, and important constructions by Thornton Dial.

Left: Red-Eyed Man Smoking Bill Traylor (1939–1942). Tempera & graphite on repurposed card, 13.25 x 18.75 in.
Right: Abstract Cat with Red Eyes, Bill Traylor (1939–1942). Tempera & graphite on repurposed card, 10.25 x 7.125 in.

Two Figures with Pitchfork and Birds, Bill Traylor (1939–1942). Black pencil & graphite on repurposed card, 12.5 x 15.25 in.

National Museum of Women in the Arts: 

Clementine Hunter Birthday Celebration

Join staff of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for a virtual happy hour to celebrate Clementine Hunter‘s birthday. Make a specialty cocktail in her honor, listen to the team share artworks and stories, and explore the museum’s collection and archives for all things Clementine.

Reserve your spot by clicking here: nmwa-org.zoom.us/webinar/register

abcd / ART BRUT short film:

Carlos Huergo Vuk

Bruno Decharme, founder of the abcd Art Brut Collection based in Paris, has released his latest documentary in a series on art brut artists, highlighting the work of Cuban artist Carlos Huergo Vuk.

"CARLOS HUERGO VUK", documentary by Bruno Decharme (2020)

"Carlos Huergo graduated in mathematics from the University of Havana. In 1990, his mother died unexpectedly while he was in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) for a student exchange. At that time he began to exhibit serious behavioral dysfunctions marked by aggressive attitudes towards his colleagues. He had to be repatriated to Cuba under sedation and a straitjacket. Diagnosed with schizophrenia he was admitted to the hospital.

"Shortly after the onset of his illness, he began to draw. He mainly works on packing boxes and sometimes on pieces of wooden tables. His paintings incorporate a multitude of signs, languages, codes and mathematical or even Kabbalistic formulas; he says he was initiated into the Kabbalah.

"The history of his country is omnipresent in his work but he also expresses in a more or less hidden way the pain of his existence exacerbated by a political regime that oppresses him."

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