Bill Traylor at Smithsonian, Washington, DC
September 28, 2018 – March 17, 2019
"Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor" is the first major retrospective ever organised for an artist born into slavery, and the most comprehensive look at Traylor’s work to date, featuring 155 of his most important paintings and drawings. Organised by Leslie Umberger, the exhibition is accompanied by a groundbreaking monograph in which Umberger thoroughly reassesses the known facts of Traylor’s life, his creative trajectory, and positions him within the broader context of American art.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC 20004
americanart.si.edu
William Hawkins at Figge Art Museum, Davenport IA
until December 30, 2018
Travelling exhibition "WILLIAM L. HAWKINS – An Imaginative Geography", organised by Figge Art Museum in collaboration with Susan Mitchell Crawley, brings together over 60 of Hawkins’s paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Figge Art Museum
225 West Second Street, Davenport, IA 52801
figgeartmuseum.org
Ody Saban in Paris
September 29 – November 30, 2018
Group exhibition "Art Brut-Art Singulier" at Galerie les Yeux Fertiles will include works by Turkish-born self-taught artist Ody Saban.
Galerie les Yeux Fertiles
27 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris, France
www.galerie-lesyeuxfertiles.com
Fred Scruton Exhibition in Summit, NJ
Work of Melvin Gould; Cheyenne, WY, 2011, courtesy of the artist, © Fred Scruton
September 28, 2018 – January 27, 2019
"Messages from the Interior" is a two-part exhibition highlighting the work of Fred Scruton, a photographer, videographer, and writer who documents visionary and other non-mainstream artists and the environments they create. A series of Scruton's photographic portraits of artists and their environments is on view in the Robinson Strolling Gallery. Selected artworks from Scruton’s personal collection—made by some of these artists—are displayed in the adjacent Eisenberg Gallery.
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
68 Elm Street, Summit, NJ 07901
www.artcenternj.org
Galerie Gugging, Austria
September 28 – November 12, 2018
At gugging galerie from September 28 through November 12, “living a dream...” features works by Alexander Gorlizki alongside a selection from his “Magic Markings” collection of early Indian mystical and vernacular drawings, as well as works by current and past gugging artists.
Galerie Gugging
Am Campus 2, A-3400 Maria Gugging Austria
www.gugging.com
Alexander Gorlizki
Creativity Explored, San Francisco CA
Katherine Finn-Gamino
until November 18, 2018
Following a collaboration with Commes Des Garçons in 2013–14, Creativity Explored artwork returns to the runway in "Fabulate!", a new fashion exhibition themed around the art and process of making oneself fabulous. Over 50 artists repurposed garments and fabrics with original paintings, drawings, patches, and fibre art into one-of-a-kind wearable artworks. The collection includes vibrant, hand-painted gowns with abstract patterns, jackets adorned with monsters and colourful characters, and upcycled street-fashion accessories.
Creativity Explored Gallery
3245 Sixteenth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
www.creativityexplored.org
Out in the next few weeks, this issue will feature:
- Norbert Kox
- Larry Harvey
- Helen Martins' Owl House
- Kwame Akoto
- Josep Baqué
- Shao Bingfeng
- Wilhelm Werner
Plus plenty of news and reviews. Don't miss this stunning issue!
