The Medium's Medium at The Gallery of Everything, London
Fleury-Joseph Crépin
September 29 – November 30, 2019
The Gallery of Everything will present a vast survey of spiritualist, mediumistic and mystic art-making, from the turn of the last century to the present day. The gallery installation will include rare historical works by Raphaël Lonné, Heinrich Nüsslein, Margarethe Held, Agatha Wojciechowsky and a wide range of Czech spiritualist artists.
The exhibition will continue at Frieze Masters in Regents Park (October 2–6) where a booth of vintage drawings and paintings will include František Jaroslav Pecka, Madge Gill, Gertrude Honzatko-Mediz, Marian Spore Bush, Augustin Lesage, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Victor Simon, Fernand Desmoulin, Nina Karasek, Ernst Josephson, Madame Favre, Emma Kunz, and Hilma af Klint. The gallery installation will continue until the end of November with regular talks and screenings.
The Gallery of Everything
4 Chiltern St, Marylebone, London W1U 7PS
www.gallevery.com
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Announces Gifts / Purchases from the Gordon W. Bailey Collection
Sam Doyle, Dr. Crow, 1982-84, 45 × 26 1/2 in. (114.3 × 67.3 cm) Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Gift of Gordon W. Bailey
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, ARK) has acquired 23 artworks, by gift and gift/purchase, from the collection of Gordon W. Bailey, a Los Angeles-based collector. Bailey is a noted scholar and advocate of untrained Southern artists, particularly African-American, who struggled during the Jim Crow era. Featured artists include Sam Doyle, Thornton Dial Sr., Clementine Hunter, Herbert Singleton and Purvis Young.
Highlights from Bailey’s group of works include: Dr. Crow, a painting on sheet metal by South Carolina artist Sam Doyle, whose works chronicled America’s unique Gullah culture, and were collected by Jean-Michel Basquiat; Cocaine Dog, a stirring, mixed media, metal sculpture by Thornton Dial Sr.; a poignant, 1950s, oil on board, Baptism, by Clementine Hunter; a six-foot tall, carved and painted, tree stump, Tree of Death, by Herbert Singleton, whose bas-relief works often address human frailty and hypocrisy; and several, outstanding, large-scale works by Purvis Young painted on wood panels reclaimed from cast-off shipping crates, and a 53-page book of Young’s mixed media works.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way, Bentonville, AR 72712
crystalbridges.org
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center has announced the acquisition of a major collection of work by self-taught artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910–1983). More than 8,300 pieces, from Von Bruenchenhein’s estate, span the entire range of the artist’s work – from paintings and sculpture to slides and photographs – and join the 6,000 Von Bruenchenhein objects already held in the JMKAC collection.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
608 New York Ave, Sheboygan, WI 53081
www.jmkac.org
Ovartaci at Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen
October 1, 2019 – March 1, 2020
For the first time in Switzerland, Museum im Lagerhaus presents the life’s work of Danish artist Louis Marcussen, aka Ovartaci, (1894–1985). Ovartaci was an inmate at psychiatric institutions for 56 years and lived in trans identities, turning her/his surroundings into a unique universe.
Museum im Lagerhaus
Davidstrasse 44, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
www.museumimlagerhaus.ch
SHRINE and Sargent’s Daughters, NYC
Hawkins Bolden
until November 10, 2019
"GARDEN" at SHRINE and Sargent’s Daughters transforms both galleries into an immersive garden space using artificial turf, plants and meandering pathways to highlight 2 and 3-dimensional artworks installed throughout the space.
SHRINE
179 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002
shrine.nyc
SARGENT’S DAUGHTERS
179 E Broadway, New York, NY 10002
sargentsdaughters.com
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cover image: Sulton Rogers, Gordon W. Baily Collection
Raw Vision Short Film Competition
Below is Jeffrey Paul's entry into the 2019 Raw Vision short film competition.
Terry Williams’ career spans three decades and reflects a diverse exploration of materials and techniques. He is best known for his soft sculpture; a technique popularised in the 1960s by artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Yayoi Kusama. Williams’ sculptural work is defined by his deft and obsessive interpretation of figures, animals and objects, both real and imagined. The tactile, pillow-like works constructed with found materials feature exaggerated, conspicuous stitching and are intensely physical and bulging in their form. Williams does not consciously work within common traditions of art but instead adopts an immersive and idiosyncratic process, ruminating on and storing ideas until they manifest into complex and multi-faceted creations. He has worked at the Arts Project Australia studio program since 1989.
To see the rest of the short films, click here.