Outsider Art Fair, New York
Outsider Art Fair New York 2017, courtesy Wide Open Arts, LLC
January 18–21, 2018
The Outsider Art Fair returns with its 26th edition in New York from January 18-21 at The Metropolitan Pavilion. The fair will showcase more than 60 galleries, with nine new exhibitors including Almost Art Project (Beijing, China), Antillean (New York), Korea Art Brut (Seoul, South Korea), Donald Ellis (New York), Wilsonville (East Hampton), First Street Gallery (Claremont, CA), Krowswork (Oakland, CA), Tops Gallery (Memphis, TN) and Jennifer Lauren (East Sussex, UK).
The fair will also be welcoming back a number of long-time exhibitors including American Primitive (New York), Ricco Maresca (New York), Luise Ross (New York), Cavin-Morris (New York), Carl Hammer (Chicago), Marion Harris (New York), Fleisher / Ollman (Philadelphia), Henry Boxer (London), and Gilley's Gallery (Baton Rouge, LA).
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Also for sale will be incredible chewing gum paintings by Ben Wilson, matchstick carvings by Pradeep Kumar and paintings by the great Julia Sisi.
Metropolitan Pavillion
125 W. 18th Street, New York, NY 10011
www.outsiderartfair.com
Pradeep Kumar
Ben Wilson
Julia Sisi
During the Outsider Art Fair in New York there will be a special event at Christie’s to honour collector and supporter of outsider art Audrey Heckler who will receive the Eric M Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Christie’s, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
5.30pm - 7.30 pm
Gil Batle at Ricco/Maresca, New York
January 19 – February 24, 2018
In "Gil Batle: Re-formed", Ricco/Maresca Gallery will present ostrich egg, bas-relief carvings by Batle, who spent over 20 years in and out of California prisons for fraud and forgery. His creations are striking visual chronicles of the American penal system. Batle's new hyper-detailed, surreal playing card drawings will also be shown. The opening reception and winter party for INTUIT will take place on January 19 from 6.30–9.00 pm.
Ricco/Maresca Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10011
www.riccomaresca.com
American Folk Art Museum, New York
Henry Darger
January 21 – May 27, 2018
"Vestiges & Verses: Notes from the Newfangled Epic" will show the work of 21 self-taught artists, with a focus on the writing practices of the artists. Artists include Adolf Wolfli, Henry Darger, Paul Laffoley, Aloïse Corbaz, Josep Baqué and Susan Te Kahurangi King. Organised by Valérie Rousseau, the exhibition will include rare manuscripts, drawings conceived in series, illustrated diaries, an evolving imaginary map, multi-part collages and journals with coded language. The works will be complemented by digital publications, audio recordings and short films.
American Folk Art Museum
47-29 32nd Place, Long Island City, NY 11101
www.folkartmuseum.org
Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen
Else Blankenhorn
until March 4, 2018
Museum im Lagerhaus presents Swiss works from the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg. The exhibition includes work by Heinrich Anton Muller, Adolf Wölfli and Karl Maximilian Wurtenberger. Never before have the ceramic sculptures of Wurtenberger from Lake Constance been juxtaposed with his drawings from the psychiatric hospital.
Museum im Lagerhaus
Davidstrasse 44,CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland
www.museumimlagerhaus.ch
Imaginary Maps at Palazzo Ducale, Genova
Joskin Siljan
January 11–28, 2018
Curated by Linda Kaiser, "Imaginary Maps. Representations of (Im)Possible Worlds" presents fantastic maps created by outsider artists such as Kuffjca Cozma, Evelyne Postic, Davide Mansueto Raggio and Julia Sisi.
Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Matteotti 9 – Genova, Italy
www.palazzoducale.genova.it
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- William Hawkins' ‘Last Suppers’ series
- Julia Göransson from Inuti, Stockholm
- Marcus Schubert's large format environment photographs
- Preview of Washington DC exhibition Outliers
- Powerful work by Soviet Gulag inmate Foma Jaremtschuk
- Interview with Martine Lusardy, Director of Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
- Howard Finster's mysterious secret language
- Robert Bannister's drawings of cosmic awareness
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