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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.
IN L.A., “CONFLUENCE” ASKED THE QUESTION: “WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE — OR NOWHERE?”
In Confluence, an exhibition recently presented at Track 16, a gallery in Los Angeles, artists examined the character of water against the backdrop of numerous debates and timely issues concerning the fate of the L.A. River. U.S.A. West Coast bureau chief Sarah Fensom reports.
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INTERVIEW: PAINTER SUZAN FRECON’S LIFELONG EXPLORATION OF COLOR AND FORM
In Suzan Frecon’s monumental-feeling and often large-scale paintings, color and form conjoin with perfect pitch in powerfully expressive, enigmatic abstract images. Frecon has long mixed her own color-rich oil paints. Here, she tells us about her abiding interest in color. Free-access article.
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CYNTHIA LUND TORROLL: FINDING MYSTERIES IN MOTHER NATURE AND IN HUMAN NATURE, TOO
Based in Wisconsin, the self-taught artist Cynthia Lund Torroll creates nature-inspired works that prompt some viewers to demand, “What do you mean to say?!” Torroll, too, searches for the messages that flow elusively from her art. An interview and unique portfolio.
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IN A NEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON, A FRESH, BROADER LOOK AT HORROR AND THE HORRIFIC
With The Horror Show!, Somerset House, an innovative cultural center, looks not only at tropes and ideas that have long been associated with the horror genre but also more broadly at what may be regarded as horrific. Cathy Ward, our London-based artist-correspondent, reports. Free-access article.
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STEVEN HIRSCH: “I WILL NOT BUG OUT ON BUGS”
Recently, New York City officials have called on the metropolis’s residents to kill the spotted lanternfly, which is viewed as a threat to agriculture, but Steven Hirsch, who wouldn’t hurt a fly, feels stung by that directive. Here, Hirsch offers us a bug-filled photo portfolio.
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