Halle Saint Pierre, Paris

Mr. Imagination

until August 2, 2019

"Chicago Calling: Art Against the Flow" explores Chicago’s history of embracing art beyond the mainstream through works by ten of its own influential artists, including Henry Darger, Lee Godie, Mr. Imagination, Drossos Skyllas, Dr. Charles Smith and Joseph Yoakum. Parallel exhibition "Hey! Modern Art & Pop Culture #4" features 36 international artists and includes works of outsider art, visionary art and art singulier.

Halle Saint Pierre
2 rue Ronsard, 75018 Paris, France
www.hallesaintpierre.org

High Museum of Art, GA

Sister Gertrude Morgan

until May 19, 2019

"Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads" explores the unconventional character of the Southern avant-garde and marks the first collaboration between The High’s folk and self-taught art and photography departments. Artists include Howard Finster, Eddie Owens Martin (“St. EOM”), Sam Doyle, Mose Tolliver, Thornton Dial, Edgar Tolson, Georgia Blizzard, Sister Gertrude Morgan, and many others.

High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30309
www.high.org

Jano Pesset in Montpellier

until September 1, 2019

Musée d’Art Brut presents Jano Pesset’s assemblages made from ivy and hazel wood.

Musée d'Art Brut
1 Rue Beau Séjour, 34000, Montpellier, France
www.atelier-musee.com

Mohammad Banissi at Galerie Hamer, Amsterdam

until May 18, 2019

Solo presentation of Mohammad Banissi (b. 1992), a self-taught artist from Tehran who had serious health problems during his childhood and has been creating full-time since 2009.

Galerie Hamer
Leliegracht 38-NL 1015 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.galeriehamer.nl

Outsider Art Galerie, Amsterdam

Wijnand de Vries

until June 2, 2019

Outsider artists explore the animal kingdom in "Birds & Beasts".

Outsider Art Galerie in The Hermitage 
Neerlandiaplein 7, 1018, DR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
outsiderartgalerie.nl

Raw Vision 101 out now!

Issue 101 features:

• COMPRESSORHEAD: Frank Barnes’ robot rock band

• WALKS TO THE PARADISE GARDEN: Excerpts from an important new book

• DANIEL GONCALVES: Intricate drawings by self-taught Portuguese artist

• RON MANN: Paintings by Vietnam veteran

• HAFIZ ADEM: Sudanese artist’s story of fleeing his country

• J.B. MURRAY: Decoding Murray’s visionary art

• MARK BEYER: Beyer’s own interpretation of his mysterious works

• CURZIO DI GIOVANNI: A different view of glossy magazine images

Raw Vision Short Film Competition

Below is Fred Scruton's entry into the 2019 Raw Vision short film competition.

William Brady is a self-taught sculptor who works and sleeps in a converted school bus he drove from Boston to California and lived in during the 1960’s. Severely dyslexic he was dismissed from the public school system in his mid-teens. He cannot read or write, but has educated himself by listening to books on tape. Brady enjoys being immersed in nature and he sleeps in the custom skylighted sleeping loft he built in his bus— which is now parked in the backyard of the family home in rural Pennsylvania. He makes sculptures out of flat tin-plated metal sheets and welding rods that often based on sketchbooks ideas dating back for decades.

Check out the rest of the short film competition entries here.