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CJ Pyle's Recent Show at Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
Below is an excerpt of the gallery statement for CJ Pyle's recent show at Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, written by the critic Robin Dluzen:
“Crawling From the Wreckage,” like most of CJ Pyle’s exhibitions, is like a snapshot of the current state of his making process. Pyle’s solo exhibitions don’t necessarily contain a certain body of work, or act as bookends to a particular set of ideas or conceptual stimuli. The artist explains that his intuition guides the progression from piece to piece, as it does his compositions, his mark-making, his choice of colors. In a way, his entire oeuvre is a career-long continuation of a single practice: his laborious style of “knotted” mark-making with ballpoint pen upon found paper material.
Pyle’s adoption of ballpoint pen in his drawing began decades ago, when he was a touring musician and free pens were the medium readily at hand. Over the years, Pyle has studied, researched and mastered the practice of drawing with a ballpoint pen, the intricacies of which are made so compelling throughout the works in “Crawling From The Wreckage.”
The LP sleeves, the backs of which are so often the surface Pyle draws upon, are another holdover from his music career. Compared to the glossy print of the album covers, the versos are a kind of blank canvas, though in Pyle’s hands, even this plain paper board incites his aesthetic decisions. For the artist, the matte, lightly sealed surface is ideal for retaining the strokes of the pen; the square format and the head and shoulders of his subjects are in perfect harmony. In The Nice, Pyle makes use of an album cover entirely unfolded, its center crease a crucial component of the picture --a formal hinge separating the figure’s head from her body like an exquisite corpse.
CJ Pyle has been featured in issue 76 of Raw Vision magazine - currently half price.
Galerie Art Cru Berlin's Online Exhibition
Concetta Cassarà
Galerie Art Cru Berlin presents their first online exhibition, "WASSERTAUFE". Included are works by the artist duo Uwe Paulsen and Emiehl Päffel (Museum für Outsiderkunst, Schleswig), Norbert Backner (Offenes Atelier St. Hedwig), Maria Concetta Cassarà (d. 2018, Bologna, Italy), THI THU (born in Laos, d. 2008, Berlin), Katinka Kaskeline (Berlin) and Achim Maaz (d. 2014, Bonn, pictures from the estate). The works were affected by water damage when the gallery suffered from a flood last year and are therefore offered at greatly reduced prices.
NIAD's New Online Show
Saul Alegria
"Water Donky Visions", selected by Nick Norman, presents a selection of works from the NIAD archive.
NIAD, which stands for the National Institute of Art & Disabilities, is a non-profit arts organisation, based in Richmond, CA, that provides studios, supplies, and gallery space to artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities.
European Outsider Art Association Conference Rescheduled
Aloïse Corbaz (1886–1964), Noël Tango Reine Elisabeth, 1962, Museum im Lagerhaus
This year's Annual General Assembly and International Conference will not take place as planned due to the Covid-19 crisis. Instead, the International Conference and Annual General Assembly will be will be postponed to May 6–9, 2021 in St. Gallen.
The board will hold an online board meeting at the beginning of May, after which they will send all members an update including information about the Annual General Assembly 2020, which will be conducted as a virtual meeting.
James ‘Son Ford’ Thomas Short Film from Breakaway Films
This short film about James 'Son Ford' Thomas was made by Jeffrey Wolf, Breakaway Films, and edited by Zach Wolf.
James 'Son Ford' Thomas was featured in issue 64 of Raw Vision magazine.
Short Film by Pavel Konečný on Emil Milan Grgurić's Eden Garden
The statues of the Slavic missionaries of St. Cyril and Methodius form the gateway to the entrance to Villa Katarina. Situated on the axis of the Eden Garden, the villa is an extraordinary architectural object, built on a floral ground plan, combining an originally spontaneous building and sculptural principle that is emotionally closely connected with the personal history of its sole creator Emil Milan Grgurić (1919–1997). This small interior and exterior architectural gem brings a distinctive and functional solution and is one of the extraordinary values of European marginal creation. This video was created by Pavel Konečný.
