"Outsider art" refers to artwork created by people who have not received formal education or training in art, and who are typically not a part of the mainstream art world. It often showcases unique and unconventional styles, reflecting the artist's personal experiences, emotions, or perspectives.
Full definition
Of course, with these galleries on board, the definition
of outsider art becomes tricky.
Between her self - taught style and her mad subjects, she can seem the ultimate
in outsider art.
Together, the panelists will attempt to answer what defines an outsider artist and lend insight to how institutions collect and
exhibit outsider art today.
Critics who
claim outsider art as an influence on the American modern miss the real story.
Through the Kit, we invite you to
explore outsider art's power to reach all learners regardless of background, experiences or skill level.
Susan has been practicing at Creative Growth since 2003 and her work has been featured at
Outsider Art Fair in New York and Paris, D'Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair, and NADA Miami.
Your Consequences Have Actions is Saelia Aparicio's first major exhibition in a public gallery in the UK, bringing together newly commissioned works made especially for The Tetley with a selection of existing works, shown alongside several drawings and sculptures from the Musgrave Kinley
Outsider Art Collection at the Whitworth, The University of Manchester.
Sutton, Benjamin, «The Met Museum Nets Major Collection of
Outsider Art from the South,» Hyperallergic, November 24.
The Musgrave
Kinley Outsider Art Collection features such challenging luminaries as Aloise, Carlo, Henry Darger, Madge Gill, Hauser, J.B. Murry, Sekulic, Oswald Tschirtner, Van Genk, Scottie Wilson, Wölfli, Zemankova as well as numerous lesser - known modern artists.
Mullen's use of art magazines as source material is in part a consequence of progressive art studios» inherent subversion of traditional ideals of outsiderism; they have long been affiliated
with Outsider Art due to disability, but in fact their core intentions are in direct opposition to the historically romanticized notion of outsider artists.
Relabeling the whole field self - taught art, a much more accurate and expansive designation, is a tough sell particularly when the appetite
for outsider art only continues to grow.
5Continents Editions is a Milan - based publisher specializing in books on African, Asian, and South Pacific arts and artifacts, as well as
on outsider art and exhibition catalogues.
«Organized by Connie Butler, the museum's chief curator of drawings, it presents a delightfully unpredictable mix of about 100 works by two distinct groups: self - taught outsider artists and idiosyncratic but conventionally trained professionals, many of whom have been inspired
by outsider art....
However, as this autobiographical exhibition demonstrates, her interests are wide - ranging: Paula Rego and Jack Smith rank among the canonical names here, though the outsider artists whose work also features are no less noteworthy, something that's partly down to the diligence of both Kinley and her late partner, Victor Musgrave, who co-curated the Hayward gallery's seminal
outsider art exhibition of 1979.
He collected art by children and mentally ill patients, and called it Art Brut (meaning raw art: also
called Outsider Art).
More, it tackles an issue as delicate
as outsider art with a deceptively sharp satirist's scalpel, understanding that the best weapon against paternalism is an affectionate portrayal of people just as mean, petty, and ruined by life as the rest of us.
The Fays» surplus of artworks,
including outsider art and thrift store finds, chronicles the couple's life together.
He championed the «raw» style of
outsider art created in the streets and in mental hospitals (which he called
Clippinger's defiant palette of solid colors reminded me of the wacky intuitiveness of kindergarten and
Southern outsider art mixed with Josef Albers's formal intelligence.
Following the gallery's exhibition at the
prestigious Outsider Art Fair New York, the Mott Street gallery will host an exhibition of artists working outside of the established art scene.
In 2015, she appeared in the first documentary exploring
Irish Outsider Art, which was produced by Firebrand Productions and aired on RTÉ television.
A rising star of the UK
Outsider Art movement, Alex Young is currently preparing for his forthcoming solo show with London Miles Gallery....
Istomina begins: «Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of
outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.
The vision back then of the primitive, not to mention Sobel's friendship with Dewey and her learning from her son's work, should add insight in another way, too: it can start a more intelligent debate
about outsider art now.
Frank Maresca on
Collecting Outsider Art by Nessia Pope December 17, 2012 Frank Maresca, co-founder of Ricco / Maresca Gallery In the late 1940s the French artist Jean Dubuffet identified a historically overlooked -LSB-...]
Interest in
outsider art continues to run high, but the BAM has buttressed Bess» work with a show drawn from its own collection titled «Color - Shift.»
Carved clay figurines trimmed with tin and cheap plastic beads could pass for the overpriced
outsider art found in some of the most prestigious auction houses.
Its tightness suggests a slightly daft woman who could not let go, and today one
associates outsider art with both craft traditions and obsessive drawing, as well as her concentration on people and expressionless faces.
So which of Domenico Zindato, Martin Thompson, Allison Schulnik, and Judith Scott is
making outsider art?
JG In recent decades, we've seen the erosion of the once tightly controlled boundaries of what Jean Dubuffet called Art Brut, which is now subsumed within the more vague and unsatisfactory
term Outsider Art.
How is
Outsider Art best understood and what does this definition mean when «inside» and «outside» become blurred?
How do you bring the aesthetic of what was considered
outsider art into the foreground.»
Outsider art keeps getting harder to define, but Lockett has every claim to outsider status.