All back issues are currently half price for a limited time only. Bruce New was featured in Raw Vision 77, currently half price. A selection of his work is available to purchase from Raw Vision's online shop. For orders of 10+ issues please email info@rawvision.com for a reduced postage cost. Bruce New at the Koelsch GalleryFrom June 11th to July 11th, Houston’s Koelsch Gallery will be exhibiting a new set of drawings by Bruce New. New (b. 1970, Somerset KY) is a self-taught visionary artist for whom the act of art-making is first and foremost to satisfy a personal need to leave a visual mark of his experiences, and to reveal things that he alone sees. He is led by an impulse to create art as an external manifestation of his innermost visions, or as he describes it, a need ‘to document his existence.’ Image courtesy of Ted Degener For New, art is inseparable from life. He explains:
New’s belief in the transcendent qualities of love is always present in his art. Celestial imagery, hearts, trees and flowers, houses, obelisks, the anchor representing hope, the hand symbolising creativity and skulls as memento mori also take their places in New’s pantheon of symbolic figures and objects. "The Cosmic Trilogy"
"The Dream Connection"
"The Moon is Only a Mirror" His art is derived through intuition and experimentation, in direct response to his own compulsion to create and his own artistic vision. In his words,
"The Muse Performs the Flight Ritual" See more of New’s work on his website, brucenew.com, or contact him directly: bruce@brucenew.com Mary Bishop showcase on InstagramThe Adamson Collection Trust has released on Instagram a series of the work Mary Cecil Hamilton Bishop (1914 – 1990). Name unknown, 56 × 45.6, poster paint on paper, year unknown
"Cri de coeur", 55.6 × 45.3, poster paint on paper, 1959
"See the nude woman. Nothing sacred. Walk up." 56 × 45.6, poster paint on paper, 1958
"The doll of Nuremberg. My mother said I would be shut in the frame and pierced with iron spikes & I would never get out (4 years old)." 55.8 × 45.7, poster paint on paper, 1967
"I would like a good doctor I could trust." 56 × 45.6, poster paint on paper, 1958
To learn more, contact: Dr David O’Flynn, adamsoncollection@gmail.com Jennifer Lauren Gallery online exhibitionThe gallery has launched her first ever online exhibition and zine, following a two-week call-out for self-defined disabled and/or deaf artists. 30 artists have been selected from 194 submissions from across the world. Image courtesy of J Lauren: Roy Gabbay, "The Greyside of the Moonvine", 18" x 24", Mixed media on wood, 2020 You can see the exhibition "Art | Unlocked | Unearthed" at jenniferlaurengallery.com. Paa Joe at the High Museum of ArtThe High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, is hosting the exhibition “Paa Joe: Gates of No Return” through August 16, 2020.
"[Fort] Gross-Friedrichsburg—Princestown. 1683 Brandenburg, 1717–24 Ahanta, 1724 Neths, 1872 Britain." Detail of Fort Gross-Friedrichsburg sculpture by Paa Joe,2004–2005 and 2017 The exhibition features large-scale, painted wood sculptures commissioned in 2004 and 2005 that represent architectural models of forts along the Gold Coast. These served as way stations for Africans sold into slavery and sent to the Americas and the Caribbean between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Virtual Tour"Paa Joe: Gates of No Return", HighMuseum
Learn more about the exhibition by visiting the High Museum of Art's website. COVID-19: French and Swiss galleries and museums reopenMuseums including Halle Saint Pierre in Paris and the Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne have announced their reopening as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces in their countries. Special social distancing arrangements are in place with controlled numbers of visitors. Most institutions insist visitors wear a mask. Meanwhile, infection rates in the UK and US result in the continued lock down. As of Wednesday, May 20, 2020, Ferdinand Cheval's Le Palais idéal has reopened for visitors. For more information, visit facteurcheval.com. Raw Vision 105 Out Now!This new downloadable PDF version of the Environments section of the renowned Outsider Art Sourcebook features 60 spectacular visionary environments from around the world. Available to purchase now for $15 | £10 | €15. |