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**ROB OBER: NO IDEOLOGY, PLEASE. THIS ART IS REAL.
“I am suspicious of art informed or directed by ideas or any ideology,” the American artist Rob Ober says. Keeping it real, authentic, shot through with a real pulse, and wildly colorful, Ober’s work feels irresistibly spontaneous and fresh. See. React. Paint. Here, the artist, who grew up all over the place, shares some thoughts about his art. Note to self: We’re in love with those gators. Click here to see article.
**JAMAICAN INTUITIVES: IT’S RAS DIZZY’S WORLD
Ras Dizzy (circa 1932-2008) was one of the most important of the Jamaican Intuitives, a group of self-taught artists whose works began to earn recognition in Jamaica in the late 1970s and notably contributed to shaping a sense of the postcolonial, independent island country’s national cultural identity. A selection of Dizzy’s works from a unique private collection. Click here to see article.
**A BIG, BOLD NEW BOOK: FRANÇOIS JAUVION’S TRIBUTE TO ART BRUT AND OUTSIDER ART MASTERS
In 2020, the French artist François Jauvion’s large-format book L’imagier singulier was published. It featured his own illustrations and texts by various specialists about the lives and accomplishments of numerous art brut and outsider artists. Now, a second volume of Jauvion’s big opus is here. See our overview of L’imagier singulier, Tome 2. Click here to see article.
**ARTIST CATHY WARD: IN LONDON, THE PSYCHIC, SOULFUL MESSAGES OF “THE ORACLES”
Like many art-makers, what with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic period and other concerns, the London-based artist Cathy Ward, who works in various media and genres, has wrestled with numerous, big challenges. Recently, as if purging the negative energy surrounding her, Ward sat down in a corner of her home to create a series of bold, mystical paintings. “They allowed me to reset myself,” she says. See a portfolio of these powerful new pictures. Click here to see article.
**PHOTOGRAPHER JOEL SIMPSON: CAPTURING NATURE’S BIZARRE CREATIVE SPIRIT — AND POWER
The photographer Joel Simpson travels widely in search of unusual natural rock formations and strange textures in the surface of the earth. Here, a selection of new photos from Simpson’s latest expeditions to the Southwest of the U.S.A. illustrates a theoretical approach he has developed to appreciating such striking images. As he notes, it leads viewers “from traditional landscape through abstraction, figuration, and finally to fiction." Click here to see article.
**OFF THE WALL: NEW YORK CITY STREET POETS AND VISIONARIES, THE KENNETH GOLDSMITH COLLECTION
In the 1980s, Kenneth Goldsmith, a poet and university professor, began tearing off anonymously made, handwritten ads, religious-themed proclamations, and oddball declarations that he found posted on walls and lampposts on the streets of New York City. A bemusing selection of such bizarre “poetry” was recently shown at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Click here to see article.
**GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: EMMANUEL HERZ’S JELLYFISH INVASION
Earlier this year, at the café/restaurant Remor in Geneva, Switzerland, we stumbled upon a stunning display of Emmanuel Herz’s festive “Fascinantes Méduses” (“Fascinating Jellyfish”), a group of sculptures and paintings that had taken over the old joint’s ceiling lamps and walls. We were smitten — and maybe also bitten. See out photo-filled report. Click here to see article.
FRANCES SMOKOWSKI: BIG-TIME BIOMORPHIC
Frances Smokowski has brought an intense sense of focus and an explorer’s spirit to each phase of a multifaceted career that has included study and work in the art-therapy field and the making of richly detailed, figurative paintings. Here, we check in on one of the artist’s other passions — her sensuous, biomorphic, abstract drawings.
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LINDA SIBIO: “THE ECONOMICS OF
In her paintings, performances, and art workshops for the neurodiverse, Linda Sibio has tapped a reservoir of pain, fear, darkness, and hardship, all of which she has transformed into expressions of humanity and self-awareness. A look at her recent solo exhibition at Craft Contemporary in L.A.
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KEN GRIMES AND THE STARS: WHO’S OUT THERE?
Based on his own in-depth research about the possibility that extraterrestrial life forms might have tried to communicate with Earth, the artist Ken Grimes has made powerful paintings using a stark palette of black and white. See our report about a new book focusing on Grimes’s work and his new exhibition at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York.
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JOHN WATERS: TAKING OUT THE TRASH
Sarah Fensom, brutjournal’s USA West Coast bureau chief, takes in an L.A. exhibition examining the career of John Waters, cinema’s king of bad taste, which “traces his beginnings as a plucky outsider in 1960s-70s Baltimore, who borrowed money from his parents to make films with his misfit friends,” to his period of Hollywood hits produced with big-name stars.
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CONFUSION & DELUSION IN PROFUSION. CONCLUSION?
brutjournal’s editor in chief, Edward M. Gómez, found himself in a funk — who isn’t feeling the weight of a world gone seriously loco? — and then in Steven Hirsch’s studio, where the artist’s recent paintings, with their acid-bold colors and gut-punch gusto, sent his spirit soaring. “Something about Steven’s art really captures the daunting Zeitgeist in a satisfying, whacky way,” Gómez says. An art-filled thought piece for this autumn of our discontent. Free-access article.
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