31st Annual Houston Art Car Parade, TX
2017 Houston Art Car Parade Grand Marshal Cheech Marin
April 12–15, 2018
The 2018 Houston Art Car Parade, organised by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, will take place April 12–15, with the Parade day being Saturday, April 14. The Parade will feature more than 250 cars, bikes, skaters and motorised creatures rolling along Allen Parkway and into Downtown Houston, making it the largest gathering of its kind in the world, and one of the biggest annual events in Houston.
Click here for the Parade route map.
The Legendary Art Car Ball will take place on Friday, April 13 from 6pm, and the Houston Art Car Parade Awards Ceremony & Brunch will take place on Sunday, April 15 from 12pm.
Highlights from the 30th Annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend in 2017
Eddie Arning at Ricco/Maresca, NY
April 19 – June 9, 2018
"Eddie Arning (1898-1993): Under the Influence" features works by the self-taught artist from Germania, Texas. Arning was a troubled youth, ultimately diagnosed with what would now be called schizophrenia. An occupational therapist at a hospital asylum gave Arning some art materials and he began creating art. Since its debut at the Dupree Gallery in 1965 in Irving, Texas, Arning’s work has been the subject of a number of exhibitions, and illustrations of his paintings and articles about his life and work have appeared in many books, catalogues and magazines.
Ricco/Maresca Gallery
529 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011, USA
www.riccomaresca.com
Bill Traylor receives headstone in Montgomery AL
Jeffrey Wolf
Internationally renowned self taught artist Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, received a headstone at the graveyard where he lies in Montgomery AL on March 27. The long process of honouring Traylor with a headstone was started by his family in 1992 and the campaign grew with help of key supporters including Marcia Weber, Jeffrey Wolf and Leslie Umberger. Six great grand children were present at the ceremony along with almost 80 other guests where proclamations by both the mayor’s and governor’s offices were read and given to the family...
MIAM in Sète, France
Hafiz Adem
until September 23, 2018
In “Evasions: l’art dans liberté”, Musée International des Arts Modestes brings together artworks produced in prisons, camps and places of refuge for exiles, and concentration camps. Works include pieces created in Calais Jungle workshops; drawings by Haz el Sudani made on the sidewalks of Paris; artworks from the Paños – Mexican prisoners in American jails; and plastic creations produced by inmates in French prisons.
Musée International des Arts Modestes
23 quai Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 34200 Sète, France
www.miam.org
Galerie Art Cru Berlin
April 12 – May 31, 2018
Norman Seibold’s (b. 1968, Stuttgart) heavy oil paintings are like a force of nature. He works several layers of thick paint with his hands to establish creations in large formats. They depict recurrent leitmotifs like “woman with flower” or explore the structure of paint itself in abstract pieces with relief-like textures.
Galerie Art Cru Berlin
Oranienburger Str. 27, 10117 Berlin, Germany
www.art-cru.de
Out this month and available to pre-order now, Raw Vision 97 features the below, plus much more!
New perspective on classic American outsider obsessed with flight
Humorous carvings and sculptures by newly discovered artist in Sardinia
Introduction to four important Japanese outsiders
Bank notes and circuses depicted by Soviet era obsessive outsider
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Master of Refinement
A celebration of the craftsmanship of upcoming Dutch talent, Tim ter Wal
By Yvonne Beelen
Industrial pipes and steel girders. Smoking chimneys and steamy cooling towers. Rooftop water containers and piled-up storage tanks. Mammoth factory halls, with tiny skylights, access roads and railroad tracks. One roundabout and two rail yards, where in one of which a freight train pulls more than 30 wagons. Transport shafts, sky-high gangways and fire escapes. Cars carpeting parking lots, and countless streetlights, villages and forests. A wide river, crossed with bridges. Meandering creeks. An airplane in the sky. These details, and more details, lay themselves out until the horizon, fighting with each other for one’s view and marked by a notable absence of humans.
Hotel Costa Meloneras, 2012, pencil on paper, 11.9 x 16.5 ins. / 30 x 42 cm
Industry From Above is an impressive, hyperrealistic drawing of the DSM chemical plant in Heerlen, southeast Netherlands, as seen through the eyes of its creator during his childhood. Whenever visiting his mother’s twin sister, who lives near the factory, or going on vacation to France, the ter Wal family would pass by the plant. The family took no notice of it, apart from Tim. His eyes took in every little detail, recording it in his mind. The plant was archived like a computer file, to be retrieved over two decades later and reproduced elaborately using nothing more than a graphite pencil, a sheet of paper and his mind.
Industry From Above, 2012-2014, pencil on paper, 33.1 x 72.5 ins. / 84 x 184 cm
Tim ter Wal is a young Dutch upcoming artist, or, as he calls himself, “a precision draftsman”. His primary inspiration is from industrial architecture and urban landscapes, but animals and the natural world, as well as fantasy worlds with huge dragons, also appear in his drawings. He has long been fascinated by industrial vistas, like the DSM plant. A young ter Wal frequently passed a steelworks in the city of Ijmuiden, a port northwest of Amsterdam where his grandfather lived. Twenty-five years later, ter Wal worked only from memory to create a ten-foot-long colour-pencil drawing of the plant, from the perspective of the North Sea Canal’s dyke half a mile away (Panorama Steelworks, not shown). Other sights are stored in his internal picture library, taken from satellite views on Google Earth or mentally recorded through airplane windows when he flies to his favourite holiday destination in the Canary Islands.
Read the rest of this article in Raw Vision 97, on its way to subscribers next week!