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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.
FOR J.J. CROMER, THE ART OF COLLAGE IS THE ART OF SURPRISE
Trained as a librarian, J.J. Cromer later became an artist. Over the years, in his collage-making, he has cut up and made use of his own earlier artworks, and he is big on the role of chance and accident in the production of his collages.
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STEPHEN ELLCOCK & MAT OSMAN’S NEW BOOK: ENGLAND ON FIRE
In their new book England on Fire, image collector-curator Stephen Ellcock and writer Mat Osman create a portrait in unusual, unexpected pictures of their homeland. These images, Osman notes, are “more furious and magical than any Shakespeare play.” Our review is coming soon.
JAMES McMANUS: COLLAGE MEETS PAINTING, NEAR AN OCEAN BREEZE
James (“Jim”) McManus integrates collage elements into his paintings, partly for their graphic character and quality and partly to create compositions that he describes as “two-dimensional dioramas,” which suggest narratives.
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MEET STEVE KEENE, THE WORLD’S MOST PROLIFIC PAINTER — REALLY!
To his admirers, the New York-based artist Steve Keene is a force of nature — that of unbridled, unstoppable, creative energy. Now, compiled by Daniel Efram in collaboration with other contributors, The Steve Keene Art Book (Hat & Beard Press/Tractor Beam) chronicles the artist’s creative journey and examines his unusual ways of selling his work. Free access to this article.
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LAKEFRONT ANONYMOUS: CHICAGO’S MOST MYSTERIOUS VERNACULAR ART
In their new book, Lakefront Anonymous: Chicago’s Unknown Art Gallery, William Swislow and Aron Packer document some of the thousands of carvings that have been created by anonymous mark-makers over the years in the big blocks of quarried stone that serve as barriers and separate public parkland in Chicago from the shores of Lake Michigan.
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