Sentences with phrase «as outsider artist»

(Do not be too quick to describe Sobel as an outsider artist.)

And yet, Ms. Mackler, famous now in her early 80s, doesn't identify as an outsider artist; her aesthetic shows the blurring of boundaries, which often seems merely a matter of institutional recognition.

Because of his lack of a formal art education and the unusual nature of his domestic situation, Cornell is often depicted as an outsider artist, but he was in the swim of things from the start.

His saturated colors and playful biomorphic forms evoke the spuriously naïve abstractions of Paul Klee and late Matisse, as well as outsider artist Forrest Bess.

Nell Minow: Sally Hawkins gives an exquisite performance as the outsider artist whose vibrant, life - affirming paintings brought joy to everyone who saw them.

Steve Carell stars as the outsider artist Mark Hogancamp, who began building an elaborate miniature World War II fantasy world in his yard after narrowly surviving a beating outside of a bar.

Not exact matches

With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true - story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableArtist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true - story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableartist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

If we are talking female indomitability, I would rather cast my ballot for Sally Hawkins's intensely watchful performances as the deaf - mute cleaning woman in «The Shape of Water» and the hobbled outsider artist in «Maudie.»

Outsider art — also known as visionary art, or art brut — «describes the work of untrained, self - taught people who make art,» says Charles Russell, author of the book Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Self - Taught and Outsider Artists.

Hawkins impresses as the Canadian outsider artist, but this true story jars when abuse is treated as romance

If we just treat this guy as any other artist, an outsider artist, it'll become much more than a spoof.

I came around to really regard him as some sort of strange outsider artist.

Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableArtist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableArtist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableartist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

LOU director Dave Mullins and producer Dana Murray «As artists who struggled with the typical challenges of growing up and fitting in — thinking we were the only ones feeling like outsiders — this nomination is more meaningful than anyone could imagine.

I'd be interested in anyone's opinion of posing oneself as an «outsider» — as someone who doesn't seem dependent on getting attention as an artist.

Though the art world may not yet have a satisfactory way of referring to artists like Mullen, who are variously described by such leaky terms as self - taught, outsider, and vernacular, it has, over the past few years, shown more interest in them and is gradually growing the existing market for their work.

Meppayil rose to international prominence in 2013 as one of the stand - outs of Massimiliano Gioni's The Encyclopedic Palace at the Venice Biennale, which enshrined «outsider artists» and reconnected contemporary creativity to time - honoured and painstaking manual labor.

Rutault, 72, who paints his canvases the same color as the walls on which they are hung, is known as a rather grumpy outsider, the kind of artist who's likely to skip his own openings.

Formerly, she served as Director of 65GRAND gallery and Study Center Manager at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and she now works with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Visiting Artists Program.

Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range of material, among which are an 1864 photograph of the forest of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.

He worked most effectively outside museums, with the earth itself, and he reveled in the artist as outsider to fine - art tradition.

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work

As Stephen Dean was on his way back to the studio after a quick stop at the Outsider Art Fair last week, Artsy caught up with the artist to hear about his current show at Ameringer McEnery Yohe — comprised of a series of huge crossword puzzles, dotted meticulously with color.

After Nature followed the trend in a crustily elegant layout: 19th century prints were shown with 20th century outsider / visionary artists, as well as «last minute» 21st century works and live performance.

Historically, the focus on an Outsider artist's biography often compensated for an absence of the artist's voice, especially in the case of artists whose disabilities prevented any conventional form of communication (such as Judith Scott who was a deaf mute who also had Down's syndrome) or when the artist worked outside of public scrutiny (as with someone like Darger).

Despite Dubuffet's intentions, Outsider Art is today an important chapter in the story of art since Modernism — and, as such, has exerted considerable influence on artists trained in art schools.

«Carol John's art reflects her encounters with mainstream modern artists - showing the obvious influence of Guston and other individualists like Marsden Hartley and Alfred Julio Jensen - it also suggests an appreciation of certain «outsider» artists, as with her improvisational approach to composition.

As with many of Gioni's past exhibitions, «The Encyclopedic Palace» will mix emerging, established, and under - recognized artists to rethink notions of «insider» and «outsider» art.

Work produced in special studios for the disabled sometimes gets treated as a likely candidate for Outsider Art status, simply because the artists are obviously marginalized, and because their work might look closer to some kind of uncontaminated and «original» creativity.

She's from Chicago and people think of her as a Chicago - based gallerist — the primary artists on her roster were the Chicago Imagists, so she showed Christina Ramberg, Ray Yoshida, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown, and Ed Paschke — but when I went to work for her she had a space on Greene Street, where she showed contemporary art on the ground floor and outsider artists simultaneously in a basement gallery.

In this candid conversation with Lane Relyea, the Cuban - American polymath talks about learning to perceive himself as an artist, dissecting the systems of the art world, and achieving success as an outsider.

Our exhibitions of major 20th - century modernists are always changing and have included Rockwell Kent, Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, and Sir Anthony Caro, as well as works by contemporary outsider artists such as Gayleen Aiken and Jessica Park.

He can come across as the belated heir of Kurt Schwitters and Surrealism in America — or as a folk artist and outsider obsessive enough to have turned out so much in this one series alone.

Chris Moon is an outsider artist making serious waves as a painter with abstract work that recalls the intensity of Francis Bacon in its stretching of anonymous human forms into the endless void of the canvas

«While she herself was relatively disenfranchised, her work influenced an entire generation of artists, including Jean Dubuffet and André Breton, and the development of Outsider Art as an area of scholarly inquiry.»

While the artists of «See It Loud» may have nursed wounds, feeling their work unjustly ignored, they reveled in their outsider status as well.

The interdependence is even greater now, as outsiders quote European painting and young artists, such as Amy Wilson or Paul Chan, borrow from Henry Darger.

However, it may take black artists as outsiders to remind one now that abstraction never entirely belonged to insiders.

«Creative Collisions» are becoming popular at the museum, so we also have on view works by major 20th ‐ century modernists including Rockwell Kent, Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, and Paul Feeley, and works by contemporary outsider artists such as Gayleen Aiken and Jessica Park.

Clearly Yang videos and photos afford Western audiences a perspective on China that comes directly from the source, but perhaps at times we as outsiders over-extend the political implications behind some of the works of artists, and particularly Chinese artists such as Yang.

Trained in twentieth - century Modernist avant - garde movements, she has continued her investigations of subcultures, outsider artists, and emerging art movements with such original work as the essay «A Partial and Incomplete Oral History of the Mission School» in the BAMPFA catalog Barry McGee; the exhibition catalog Energy That Is All Around; and the introduction to Bruce Conner: The Afternoon Interviews.

The two will also give a 60 - minute performative artist talk, with video, titled Yes Queen, Yes: Views of the Houston Drag Scene from Stonewall to the Onset of the AIDS Crisis As Told By Two Outsiders, which incorporates interviews with Houston LGBTQ elders.

Identified by the well - known art historian John McGregor as a great American Outsider Artist, Dwight Mackintosh began making artwork late in life and after spending over fifty - five years in institutions.

It will examine Blake as a model for the artist as outsider and bring together works by Helen Adam, Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Robert Frank and Jess.

Black artists may have been marginalized, but one can no longer dismiss them as outsiders.

Hancock's sculpture is part of the artist's elaborate self - scripted mythology around «Mounds,» human - plant hybrids threatened by the evil race of «Vegans,» but his is only one of the visionary universes glimpsed within the exhibition, which surveys such «outsider» artists as Minnie Evans, Bessie Harvey, Marie «Big Mama» Roseman, and J. B. Murray.

Some of these movies follow artist outsiders as they attempt to infiltrate the art world while, at the same time, revolting against its conventions, pretentions, and exclusive tendencies.

Alongside names that will be familiar to most followers of contemporary art, the show features the work of many outsider artists and historical figures who might not even consider themselves artists per se, such as Austrian theorist and educator Rudolf Steiner, black magician Aleister Crowley, and pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung.

MARTÍN RAMÍREZ: HIS LIFE IN PICTURES, ANOTHER INTERPRETATION The former Santa Monica Museum of Art is reborn as the ICA LA with a show dedicated to this transfixingly trippy outsider artist.

Although Darger was unrecognized as an artist during his lifetime, the impressive body of watercolors and writings he created are acclaimed by admirers and scholars of both mainstream and outsider art, and has been a source of inspiration for several generations of contemporary artists.