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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.
THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET, AN ART DEALER ASKS: “IS OUTSIDER ART DEAD? SHOULD IT BE?”
In Death of an Outsider, its inaugural presentation at its new Los Angeles branch, the New York gallery SHRINE proposed that the terms “outsider” and “outsider art” only serve to prevent certain artists and their creations from receiving the critical attention — and higher-priced sales — they deserve. An interview with SHRINE founder Scott Ogden.
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MIMI YOUNG: ART ABOUT “HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT”
Well known as a fashion stylist, the artist Mimi Young also makes paintings, mixed-media works on paper, and assemblage objects. In a new presentation at Pinkwater Gallery in Kingston, New York, she explores abstraction and the theme of “hiding in plain sight.” Free-access article.
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EVERYDAY REVELATIONS: A PHOTOGRAPHER FINDS ART IN NATURE AND ORDER IN CLUTTER
Have camera, will travel: brutjournal’s visual director, the photographer Bill Westmoreland, has been making springtime outings in the city and in rural settings, where he has reveled in his discoveries of unwitting sculptural forms. A photo portfolio. Free-access article.
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DONNA SHARRETT: MEDITATIONS ON NATURE, MEMORY, AND THE TOUCH OF THE ARTIST’S HAND
Based in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City, Donna Sharrett has used embroidery, antique fabrics, and cast-off materials to create commemorative works exploring a sense of memory, especially of places in the heart. Here, she presents her newest works.
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CITY RAMBLER AL NINGEN’S “TOKYO FURUSATO”
The Tokyo-based Scotsman known as “Al Ningen” has been composing an epic-length series of free-verse billets-doux capturing the moods, spirit, and irresistibly quirky charms of his adopted home. An exclusive preview of three poems from a big, new, ambitious work.
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