Sentences with phrase «outsider artists such»

«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.

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.

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

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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.

Such so - called «outsider,» or self - taught, artists are well - represented at Independent.

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.

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.

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.

But really, the show belongs to the «outsider artists» (such an irritating appellation), whose obsessions and sorrows emanate freely — even suffocatingly — from their gorgeous, haunted objects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such as Mary Tyler Moore, Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers.

Works by Fountain House Gallery artists are included in 400 public and private collections and have been featured at numerous venues and in special exhibits such as the prestigious Outsider Art Fair.

The position of the outsider and shape shifter is central to this body of work and the influence of feminist icons such as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde or artist, punk poet, experimental novelist and filmmaker Kathy Acker lingers.

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.

The artists on view in Outsider Art also share something beyond their often improvisational methods of art - making: Their works are woven together by common threads such as religion, the mystical world of animals, pop culture and icons of American history.

Now the venue founded by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler is being used also as a rental venue for different fairs such as Independent, Outsider, Editions Artist Books, NADA, and SELECT art fair.

Inspired by historical sources as varied as the Italian futurists (for their interdisciplinary and offbeat interpretations of industrial development) and folk or outsider artists native to the American South (for their exaltation of the amateur aesthetic and embrace of the everyday), Blackwell's artworks address such contemporary themes as environmentalism, excess, utility, and (re) use with a fresh and playful sense of experimentation.

At the present moment, however — at a time of increased interest in such European and American artists as Kozan's near contemporary, Biloxi potter George E. Ohr, whose work was rediscovered in the 1970s; in 1960s ceramic artists like Ron Nagle and Ken Price; in outsider artist and ceramicist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein; and in contemporary artists working in clay like Kathy Butterly, Andrew Lord, and Arlene Shechet — it is Kozan's more eccentric sculpted works that resonate.