June 11 2021 #220
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers:
Folk, Outsider & Self-Taught Art Auction
August 12, 2021
A folk, outsider and self-taught art auction will take place on Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 10 AM CDT. Consignments are now invited and the deadline is July 9. Please email images of artwork to info@toomeyco.com or complete their Request an Estimate form online. Outsider Art specialist Aron Packer is Head of Sale.
Artists pictured: William Dawson, Howard Finster, Lee Godie, Jesse Howard, Carl McKenzie, Elijah Pierce, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Tattoo Flash 1960’s, Tramp Art Lamp 1930’s
A sampling of artists in the auction: Butler, Dawson, Finster, Godie, Hipkiss, Mr. Imagination, Mumma, Pierce, Savitsky, Sudduth, Myrtice West, Willie White, Wesley Willis, and many others.
For more information, go to: toomeyco.com/folk-outsider-and-self-taught-art-auction-on-august-12-2021. Reach out with any questions to aron@toomeyco.com or (708) 383-5234 ext. 23.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
818 North Boulevard, Oak Park, Illinois 60301, Chicago
(708) 383-5234 (t) /(708) 383-4828 (f)
info@toomeyco.com / www.toomeyco.com
Pompidou Centre to open Art Brut section with large donation from abcd collection
The Art brut abcd / Bruno Decharme collection is comprised of pieces by artists of various origins "produced in psychiatric hospitals or in the solitude of cities and in the countryside as well as the so-called spiritualist productions and folk art objects that escape the traditional norms."
420 artists from the 19th century up to today created the 6000 works exhibited in the abcd / Bruno Decharme collection. Among those, 950 will join the new department at the Centre Pompidou, works by artists such as Barbus Müller (featured in Raw Vision #107), Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, Katsuhiro Terao, Dan Miller, Ramón Moya Hernández, Miloslava Ratzingerova, Achilles G. Rizzoli, André Robillard, Josef Karl Rädler, or Ionel Talpazan, will be exhibited.
Galerie ART CRU Berlin:
Robert Fischer
Finissage: June 17 from 6 pm
Galerie ART CRU is exhibiting paintings by Robert Fischer in his first exhibition in Berlin. In 2007, he was awarded the recognition prize at the international art competition Euward.
Untitled, 2016, mixed media, 50 x 70 cm. Photo: GEYSO 20 / Lebenshilfe Braunschweig
Fischer combines long rows of letter-like symbols with minimalistic drawings such as crosses or circles that are somewhat reminiscent of faces. These signs and shapes are often organised into groups.
Untitled, undated, mixed media, 44 x 64 cm. Photo: GEYSO 20 / Lebenshilfe Braunschweig
He then adds a second layer on top of the drawings in oil pastels, ink, and fiber paints. See more of his work at www.art-cru.de.
Able ARTS:
Summer Classes
Able ARTS have some new courses coming up this summer, including a cultural paper mâché masks series, drawing for beginners and journal making.
Check out their full program at www.ableartslearnforlife.org.
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT:
Chris Santiago
Christopher Santiago is a sociocultural anthropologist, artist and poet who has taught at several universities and completed years of fieldwork in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
I have no artistic training and am entirely self-taught. Secondly, I was unable to read until 4th grade (about 9 yrs old), and as a result of my learning disability I maintained a strong relationship to visual communication that informs my work today.
The Liberation of Phantasms from the Rupture of Hystery, Santiago, 2019, oil and acrylic on wood panel, 8 x 12 in.
From Pineal Eye to Base Materialism and Back Again, Santiago, 2019–2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 104 x 62 in.
Based on my fieldwork in the Andes mountains, my art revolves around the theory and practice of cultural resistance in the form of dreams, paintings, songs, dance, stories, and jokes which I call the shamanic aspects of the struggle for social justice. I use found materials and create on top of found painting.
My ultimate preoccupation is the sensory imagination, redeeming what in labeled 'phantasy' or 'hallucination', the reality of experience
Greetings from the Pineal Eye, Santiago, 2020, acrylic on found canvas with gold painted frame 25 x 21.5 in.
See more of Santiago's work at www.kiefersantiago.com and @phantasmata_traumata.
Featured articles include:
MADGE GILL
Reams of calico murals and thousands of mesmerising inked postcards
The mysterious and enigmatic artist Madge Gill (1882–1961) defied all expectations of being a working-class woman in the early twentieth century. Hidden away at home, she produced a seemingly endless wealth of unique artwork.
While connecting to spiritualism, perhaps in response to her own psychological turmoil, she worked on her own terms, heedless of the male-dominated mainstream art world.
Life outside her terraced house in Newham, East London, during World War II, was conservative, rationed and restrained. Her creative outpouring challenged all preconceptions of her supposed role in a gendered and restrictive society.
Read the full article in Raw Vision #107.