Fountain House Gallery exhibition:"Let America Be America"Fountain House Gallery – the premier venue in New York City representing artists with mental illness – today announced the upcoming exhibition Let America Be America, inspired by the Langston Hughes poem “Let America Be America Again.” The show will be presented online from September 24, 2020, through November 11, 2020. We the People Stand Indivisible, Dubblex (2019). Acrylic and marker on canvas, 50.8 x 50.8 cm (20 x 20 in.) The exhibition press release (which you can read in full by clicking here) states:
80's to 20's USA, Shelia Horne (2020). Acrylic paint, marker, & watercolor collage on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) The exhibition is curated by Fountain House Studio Coordinator Karen Gormandy, who said:
Country Roads Take Me Home, Issa Ibrahim (2017). Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.) Read the Langston Hughes poem here. The online exhibition can be viewed at: artsy.net/show/fountain-house-gallery-let-america-be-america Follow Fountain House Gallery on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for more astounding art. American Folk Art Museum:Audrey Heckler’s 500+ piece outsider art collection
Untitled, Adolf Wölfli (1918); photo: Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
Untitled, Charlie Willeto (1961–64); photo: Visko Hatfield, courtesy of the Foundation to Promote Self Taught Art and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
Untitled granite sculpture, Barbus Müller, a.k.a. Antoine Rabany (c. 1907-19); photo: Visko Hatfield. Read the full article and see more of Heckler's collection here. October 1 2020: Intuit Visionary Ball This year's Intuit Visionary Ball will be held online; you can get your ticket to access the live video stream next Thursday, October 1, here. Tickets range in prices; it is free to view the video stream (while still registering to gain access), but there are also several paid options with lots of perks.
View the Visionary Ball 2020 Program Booklet , and get your tickets now! November 14 2020:Slotin Folk Art AuctionAn early Howard Finster painting believed to be his largest, yet one of the least well-known of his early masterworks, will be the highlight of Slotin Folk Art Auction's Self-Taught Art Masterpieces on November 14, 2020. The Buford, Georgia-based auction house has handled the sale of many early Finster pieces, but never one as large as the 1977 painting Chelsea Baptist Church, numbered 641, which measures 103.5 inches wide by 44 inches high including frame. The narrative painting, tractor enamel on Masonite, is centered around the Northwest Georgia church where the preacher-turned-folk-artist ministered from 1950 to 1965. Chelsea Baptist Church #641, Howard Finster (1977). Tractor enamel on Masonite, 263 x 112 cm (103.5 x 44 in.) Chelsea Baptist Church prominently depicts congregants arriving at the simple white-frame sanctuary in the pastoral town of Menlo, with Finster standing to the side under a white-bloom-festooned tree inhabited by a dove. The painting presents many visionary aspects, including a river baptism involving biblical-looking figures, a shepherd tending his sheep and a city of "heavenly mansions." Chelsea Baptist Church in Menlo, Georgia, US; photo: Slotin Folk Art The artist gave the painting to the church, where he served the longest in an itinerant career. For decades the monumental painting was displayed behind the Chelsea Baptist pulpit, but it was moved after a baptistery was constructed. Finster created the painting the year after he had a vision while repairing a bicycle in which a human face appeared in a paint smudge on his fingertip, commanding him to "paint sacred art." U.S.N. Honey Driper, Sam Doyle (n.d.). Paint on found roofing tin, 70 x 115 cm (27.5 x 45.5 in. Artwork by Sam Doyle will also be in the auction. His painting U.S.N. Honey Driper depicts a sailor from the Sea Islands who became a war hero when he shot don several Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor. It is one of a number of important works by major African-American artists of the 20th century that will be auctioned at Slotin Folk Art Auction's Self-Taught Art Masterpiece Sale on Nov. 14, 2020. View Slotin's virtual flipbook to see the artworks available in the auction. The Gallery of Everything exhibition:ASAFOFrom September 13 to October 4,2020, The Gallery of Everything presents ASAFO, an online exhibition of Asafo flags from Ghana, dating from the 1930s to the 1970s. Untitled, anonymous (c 1920/30). Stitched, appliquéd and embroidered cotton, 119 x 156 cm (47 x 61 in.)
Untitled, anonymous (c 1930/40). Stitched, appliquéd and embroidered cotton, 100 x 175 cm (39 x 69 in.)
Untitled, anonymous (c 1930/40). Stitched, appliquéd and embroidered cotton, 115 x 160 cm (45 x 63 in.)
Click here to view the digital exhibition. Raw Vision 106: Out NowNellie Mae Rowe's house in Vinings, 1971, photo: Lucinda Bunnen, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Raw Vision #106 features: the art and garden environment of Nellie Mae Rowe (shown above), Gwyneth Rowlands, Joe Coleman, Jean-Marc Renault, Patrick Hackleman, , Monique Mercerat, Albert and La Fabuloserie.
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