Sentences with phrase «outsider artist known»

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.

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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.

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.

Three works by the outsider sculptor Judith Scott (1943 - 2005), known for creating evocative misshapen presences by wrapping found objects in layers of yarn, share a low platform with the work of the mainstream artist Nancy Shaver, whose delicate assemblage - boxes covered with found papers and fabrics, resemble folk - art updates.

And so, amid the more conventional array of mid-century American modernists, lesser - knowns, outsiders, and non-Western artists are finding a place, and a market, at the stuffier end of The Armory Show.

Known / Unknown: Private Obsession and Hidden Desire in Outsider Art showcases over 100 rarely seen works by self - taught artistic masters — so called «outsider artists» — who have worked outside the continuum of art Outsider Art showcases over 100 rarely seen works by self - taught artistic masters — so called «outsider artists» — who have worked outside the continuum of art outsider artists» — who have worked outside the continuum of art history.

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.

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

In the paintings for which he first became known, de Balincourt worked from the position of an outsider (the Paris - born artist has lived in the United States since childhood), questioning structures of power and influence, laying bare injustices and hypocrisies while maintaining an amused attachment to the myths through which identity — individual and national — is constructed.

The former is one in which the artist carves out, no matter how provisionally, an outsider position from which to shine light on the biases and inequities institutions enact and reproduce.

The exhibition in Washington paired outsider artists with others, like Judith Scott with Jessica Stockholder, with the implication, Gómez argued, that Modernism still knows better or that outsider art can not stand alone.

Open Studios are one of the few times outsiders get a chance to see an artist's work, where they work, and you never know who might be walking around.

William Powhida is the best - known outsider artist making art about the insider NY art scene that may have ever existed.

For this show, Grant conjured an encounter between Henri Matisse and the little - known African - American outsider artist Mary A. Bell (1873 - 1941).

Eugene James Martin Favorite Blues September 5 - October 31, 2014 Black artists may have been marginalized, but one can no longer dismiss them as outsiders.

The exhibition includes some artists already well known on the art circuit, as well as American outsider artist Joseph Yoakum and other kinds of practitioners, such as Tezuka Architects from Japan.

He mentioned the late post-Minimalist sculptor Bill Bollinger (whose comeback retrospective is at New York's SculptureCenter right now), Japanese outsider Yayoi Kusama and the indefinable Lee Lozano — all of whom were once known only by a handful of artists and art historians, but who now are achieving various degrees of fame.

The following 21 exhibitions constitute a motley and promising bunch, including legendary names like Edgar Degas, buzzy emerging artists like Pia Camil, barely known outsiders like Clarence and Grace Woolsey and everything in between.

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.

• Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85) Avant - garde French naif artist, collector of Art Brut (Outsider Art), known for his sculptures constructed from junk materials.

Carl Hammer Gallery is internationally acknowledged for representing some of the best outsider artists in the world, well known in their own right, like Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum, and illustrated here, the reclusive Henry Darger, who is a truly remarkable artist with the most bizarre story attached to his life and working methods than any other I know.

It sounds like whoever is behind it are not willing to respect or work with our established arts community of over 1,200 local artists, but are creating a simulation of our community as a commercial space for outsiders or newcomers in the neighborhood who do not know the decade long history of Bushwick Open Studios.

As outsiders, we never know where the autobiography is in relation to the language of the art object, the artist's writings, and mediated media publication, while autobiography incorporates the problems of remembrance.

Paschke was known as a member of the late - 1960s Chicago Imagist movement, a group of artists who called themselves The Hairy Who, whose expressive style of figurative painting was rooted in outsider art, popular culture, and Surrealism.

Inner Worlds Outside brings together works by leading Modernist artists, including Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Philip Guston, and by less well known artists from the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, held by IMMA since 1998.

Regardless of the semantic debate that has long complicated popular understanding of the category's definition, the annual Outsider Art Fair provides an opportunity to see how its major galleries respond to the changes in the field, all while promoting both emerging and well - known artists to an eager marketplace.