THIS IS THE PLACE FOR DISCOVERIES AND DISCUSSIONS OF THE MOST INVENTIVE ART FORMS – ALL KINDS OF ART THAT IS FAR-OUT, FANTASTIC, FREE-SPIRITED, FUN, FUNKY, PHENOMENAL AND GOOD FOR THE SOUL.
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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.
THE ANIMALS ARE READY FOR THEIR CLOSE-UPS: BILL WESTMORELAND’S PHOTO-PORTRAITS OF COWS
Some text.Bill Westmoreland, brutjournal’s visual director, is a renowned photographer who has shot photo-portraits of Liza Minnelli, Freddy Cole, Ann Hampton Callaway, and many other Broadway and jazz greats. His pictures of cows are genuine portraits, not just generic images of animals. How and why?
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SAN FRANCISCO: “SPECULATIVE PORTRAITS”
Some text.Now on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Speculative Portraits, an exhibition exploring how several female artists, using science and technology, are expanding the form and meaning of portraiture. Sarah Fensom, brutjournal’s U.S.A. West Coast bureau chief, reports.
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MORE TO COME HERE IN JULY
Coming later in June, more feature articles here on the BIG PAGE. As we do our reporting and gather information and images, we'll be doing our best to avoid swirving too close to that gigantic black hole. If only it could suck up and obliterate such earthly foibles as war, bigotry, injustice, and greed. In the meantime, we’re counting on earthbound artists to lead the way toward — and fill our tiny corner of the galaxy with — light.
VERNACULAR PORTRAITS — WHOSE?
Based in St. Louis, the graphic designer and longtime collector of folk art and American outsider art John Foster is also a leading collector of vernacular photography. In the spirit of this month’s brutjournal theme, he shares some gems from his holdings, a group of photo-portraits whose subjects (like the “Party Ghoul”) and creators will forever remain unknown.
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THE WRITING’S ON THE WALL
Images from a conflict zone: The British artist J.P. Lux has visited the Israeli-controlled West Bank many times and is writing a book about the street artist Banksy's involvement with that occupied territory. Here, he shares a report of his latest trip, focusing on publicly presented, Palestinian protest art.
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