No Images? Click here RAW NEWS ![]() SILVER LININGS AT THE KOPPEL PROJECT Exhibition: Nov 17 - 19 A collaboration between Designers T H E U N S E E N and psychologist Dr Victoria Tischler has created Silver Linings, a unique project transforming discarded t-shirts into artworks. THE KOPPEL PROJECT THE SPEED ART MUSEUM Nov 5, 2016 – Feb 5, 2017 The Speed Art Museum has received a major gift of 35 contemporary artworks from the Los Angeles-based collector Gordon W. Bailey. All 21 artists, most African-American artists from the southern United States, featured in this gift are making their debuts in the Speed Art Museum’s permanent collection. A selection of these works will be on view in the exhibition A New World in My View: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey in the Speed’s contemporary galleries on the second floor of the North building. SPEED ART MUSEUM ![]() Image: Willie Birch (American, born 1942), Sunday’s Child, c. 1991, mixed media, papier-mâché, 56 × 17 × 17 1/2 in. (142.2 × 43.2 × 44.5 cm.), Gift of Gordon W. Bailey ARTICLE PREVIEW: ART AND TRAUMA In an extract from his new book, DANIEL WOJCIK examines the effect of trauma on the life and work of two artists Although there is an extensive body of literature on art therapy practice and theory in the clinical setting, there is much less written about the spontaneous creation of art by individuals who, through their own ingenuity, have used creativity as a form of self therapy in relation to grieving over a loss, coping with traumatic events, confronting stressful situations or dealing with mental illness. Painful emotions and traumatic experiences sometimes cannot be communicated in words, but the creating of things can be a medium for their expression, an external manifestation of inner turmoil or overwhelming experiences, and may help clarify issues or restore a sense of self-worth. To be clear in this context: creativity is not inevitably interwoven with suffering; tragedy and emotional pain are not prerequisites for artistic activity; and the creative outputs of the vast majority of individuals labelled “outsider artists”, “visionary artists”, “self-taught artists” and artists in general are not necessarily related to trauma or life-crisis. Although many of the individuals discussed in this study have used creativity as a way to cope with misfortune, they are not presented here as somehow representative of self-taught or “outsider” artists overall. ![]() ![]() Image top: Gregory Van Maanen in Patterson, NJ, c. 1990, photo by Ted Degener. Image above: Ionel Talpazan at his New York apartment in 1996, photo: Ted Degener ![]() Image above: Ionel Talpazan, Neutra Mistery UFOs, 2013, oil stick, marker and paint on paper, 20 x 29 ins. / 50 x 74 cm, American Primitive Gallery, New York The potentially therapeutic features of art making are illustrated by the art of Ionel Talpazan (1955–2015), a refugee from Romania who lived in New York City. Talpazan created more than 1000 paintings, drawings and sculptures inspired by his ideas about flying saucers and life in outer space. He said that he “sacrificed his life to the UFO” and his dream was to share his ideas with NASA scientists; his ultimate goal was to reveal the unknown technologies and hidden meanings of flying saucers, with the hope of helping humanity. ![]() Image above: Gregory Van Maanen, Untitled, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York RAW VISION 92RV92 will be available in December, and will include the following features... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |