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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.
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY: A BRIEF HISTORY THROUGH THE PARANORMAL BELIEVER’S LENS
From last month’s special section on art and the spiritual: Cultural historian Daniel Wojcik, a specialist in folklore, mythology, and religious culture, looks at the evolution of “spirit photography” and the 19th-century beliefs that influenced it. Holy ectoplasm!
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MIMI YOUNG: CREATIVE COLLABORATION WITH NATURE AND TIME
In 2013, using clay scraps from a pottery workshop, the artist Mimi Young made molded forms based on her own body and then used them to create an outdoor installation. Its decomposition was part of its subject matter and purpose. Young recalls this work’s motivating ideas.
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PREVIEW: 2022 OUTSIDER ART FAIR PARIS
Back in full form after pandemic-provoked postponements, the Outsider Art Fair Paris, the sister of the OAF New York, will offer a vibrant showcase for art brut and outsider art in Europe. Fair owner Andrew Edlin tells us about the much-anticipated event. Free-access article.
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OUT THERE: AN EARLY CONCEPTUAL ART PROJECT, ODD, RADICAL, AND MISUNDERSTOOD
brutjournal’s visual director, the photographer Bill Westmoreland, recalls presenting a conceptual-art project when he was a student in art school in Texas, in the early 1970s. It was received as something very far-out and incomprehensible.
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LINDA SIBIO: FROM “CRACKED EGGS,” POWERFUL, PERSONAL ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS
Painter, performer, teacher — Linda Sibio struggled with poverty and developed a mode of art instruction for people affected by mental disorders that “uses their symptoms as avenues for creative expression.” She recalls her remarkable journey of self-discovery through art.
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