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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.
PICTURE THIS: THE ART OF PORTRAITURE
Some text.A good portrait does more than offer a recognizable likeness of its subject. A compelling portrait captures a subject’s aura, too. This month, we take an inquisitive — and random but illuminating — look at some portrait-makers’ works. Picture that! Free access to this article.
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ROBERT HOLCOMBE’S COLLAGE ART: ALWAYS MORE AND NOT EXACTLY WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE
Robert Holcombe is one of the most original, imaginative artists you’ll never meet. That's because there is a big, not-so-secret secret associated with this maker of collage works characterized by complex compositions and diverse, often humorous references to nature, history, and art. Get to know Holcombe’s story and his remarkable creations.
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AUBREY ASHLYN RYE: EASING INTO COLLAGE — AND EASING COLLAGE INTO PHOTOGRAPHY
Aubrey Ashlyn Rye had become accustomed to capturing the rhythms and the energy of New York City through spontaneous-feeling street photography but more recently he has been using a collage technique to create photographic compositions, some of which feature his own self-portrait images. These works are moody, mysterious, and multilayered. In them, everything seems to flicker and float.
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PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING, COLLAGE: STEVEN HIRSCH’S EXPANDED YIN AND YANG
For many years, the pavement-pounding photographer and artist Steven Hirsch has shot photos for newspapers. He has incorporated collage elements into his paintings, sometimes sending up the sensationalism and hysteria of tabloid journalism. “I have tried to morph painting and photography together,” Hirsch has said, “letting go of the photographic process.”
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STEVEN RUDIN: COLLAGE AND THE MULTIPART SELF
New York-based Steve Rudin is both a psychiatrist and an artist, whose ideas about collage art are closely related to and reflect his interests in the nature of narrative, and in memory and identity. Reveling in the openness and unpredictability of the collage technique’s non-linear, random nature, he sees it as a metaphor for the multifaceted human self.
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