November 6 2020 #189
Intuit: Outsider Art Day 2020
Intersect Chicago will present their 2020 art fair virtually due to COVID-19. As part of the fair, join Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Arts online on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, for Outsider Art Day.
Untitled, Henry Darger (c. 1950–1960). Part of double-sided watercolor, graphite and carbon tracing on paper, 61 x 174 cm (24 x 108 in.). Courtesy: Andrew Edlin Gallery
Beginning at 10 a.m. Central Time (8 a.m. Pacific Time, 11 a.m. EST and 4 p.m. GMT), Intuit kicks off the day's festivities with an interview between Intuit President and CEO Debra Kerr and art historian Leisa Rundquist, who will discuss her forthcoming book, The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger's Art.
Following a 15-minute recess, Kerr joins Chief Curator Alison Amick at 11 a.m. central to learn about the re-creation challenges and decision-making that resulted in the current version of the exhibition "Outsider Art: The Collection of Victor F. Keen". Then go behind-the-scenes of the Henry Darger Room Collection to learn about the challenges of preserving and curating that space.
Installation: Outsider Art: The Collection of Victor F. Keen; photo: Intuit
For more information and to register for the event, click here.
Outside In: Patient Artwork Project 2021–22
Outside In is an established charity in the UK that aims to provide a platform for artists who face significant barriers to the art world due to health, disability, social circumstance or isolation. They have recently announced the launch of a new two-year project: "Patient Artwork: New Dialogues".
Sexual Personae, installation view. Photo by Cyril Bailleul/Drouot
The project will bring together artists facing barriers to the art world with three organisations with historic collections from asylums and psychiatric hospitals, delivering specialist training programmes to support artists to develop new skills and perspectives on these archives.
Across the UK, a number of museums, galleries and archives hold collections of work created by patients who were at some point admitted into psychiatric hospitals. Work that has been created by artists or patients with first-hand experience of these hospitals gives an insight into the changing heritage of the treatment and attitude towards people experiencing mental health issues.
This project will focus on skilling up artists, who perhaps have their own experience of mental health issues, to be able to explore, research and interpret collections of historic art work created by patients during their time in psychiatric hospitals across the UK.
As part of the two-year project, Outside In will be delivering a number of Step Up: Exploring Collections courses with each partner organisation, giving participants the opportunity to explore, research and interpret these fascinating collections.
Find out more about the "Step Up" training courses by clicking here.
Tyree Guyton: Short Film
Martos Gallery presents a digital re-screening of a documentary about the amazing Detroit outsider artist Tyree Guyton. The short film screening is introduced by actor, author, collector, and activist Hill Harper,
Guyton created the visionary environment known as the Heidelberg Project.
Introduction: "Hill Harper Art Basel OVR:20c" by Martos Gallery, 2020
Having grown up on Heidelberg Street and witnessed the tragic effect of the Detroit riots as a child, Tyree Guyton (b. 1955) set about cleaning up the decaying area with the help of his grandfather Sam Mackey, his former wife Karen, and neighbourhood children. In 1986, using the refuse they collected, Guyton began to transform the street into a massive open-air environment.
Documentary: "Come Unto Me, The Faces of Tyree Guyton", produced by Nicole Cattell (1999)
In constant battle with the authorities since beginning his project, Guyton continues to decorate abandoned buildings, vacant lots and pavements with all manner of discarded objects such as shoes, toys and old bicycles. His own paintings and messages cover the area, as well as the brightly painted polka dots that have become the trademark of the Heidelberg Project.
Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project
Through his art, Guyton highlights the problems of poverty and urban ghettos, aiming to save forgotten neighbourhoods and inspire people to use art as a means to enrich their environment.
The Dotty Wotty House and Penny Car
Now in its 34th year, The Heidelberg Project (Detroit, MI) is one of the most influential art environments in the world. Founded by native Detroit artist Tyree Guyton in 1986; the HP was paramount in visually depicting societal ills and injustices, while simultaneously creating provocative art installations and free standing sculptures in a marginalized Detroit community.
Obstruction of Justice (OJ) House
Read more about Guyton and watch the full documentary on the Martos Gallery website.
Guyton is also featured in the Outsider Art Sourcebook and Visionary Environments eBook (available for download as a PDF).
The Heidelberg Project was documented in Raw Vision #54.
Pittsboro, North Carolina: Folk Art Scene
This short video produced and filmed by Julia Carpenter and Dan Powers showcases three venues that celebrate folk art in Chatham County, Pittsboro, North Carolina: a museum and café, a studio space/gallery and a bed and breakfast.
"Pittsboro’s Folk Art Scene" by North Carolina Weekend | UNC-TV (2019)
The Rosemary B&B lounge, Pitsboro, North Carolina; photo: Airbnb
The Kindred Folk Art Gallery at The Rosemary B&B displays the unique work of ten regional folk artists. All art in The Rosemary House is for sale.
Raw Vision 106: Out now
Raw Vision #106 features: Gwyneth Rowlands, Joe Coleman, Patrick Hackleman, Jean-Marc Renault, Nellie Mae Rowe, Monique Mercerat, Albert and La Fabuloserie.
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