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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.
COLLAGE ART: GEE VAUCHER’S CLASSIC TOUCH
Gee Vaucher, who is based in rural England, began making collages in the mid-1970s. Her crisp, photo-based compositions feature clever, gently subversive combinations and juxtapositions of images. She works in a range of materials and genres, doing “whatever it takes,” as she says, to convey her thoughts. Free access to this article.
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STICK IT TO ’EM: EXPLORING THE ART OF COLLAGE
The techniques and aesthetics of collage, plus the outlook on the world that collage-making nurtures, are deeply rooted in the history of modern art. The expressive power and wide-open creative license that collage offers continue to appeal to artists everywhere. This month, we look at the work and sources of inspiration of a wide variety of clever collage-makers. Free access to this article.
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STEVE KEENE, THE WORLD’S MOST PROLIFIC PAINTER
The New York-based artist Steve Keene has been called the most prolific painter ever. Now, The Steve Keene Art Book (Hat & Beard Press/Tractor Beam), compiled by Daniel Efram, examines the artist’s creative ethos and his unusual way of selling his work. Free access to this article.
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LAKEFRONT ANONYMOUS: CHICAGO’S UNKNOWN, MOST PUBLIC ART
In their new book, Lakefront Anonymous: Chicago’s Unknown Art Gallery, William Swislow and Aron Packer document the thousands of carvings that have been created by unknown mark-makers on big stone barriers separating public parkland in Chicago from the shores of Lake Michigan.
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MAURICE SULLINS: FORCES OF SKY AND LAND, CAPTURED IN PAINT
At age 60, Maurice Sullins (1910–1995), an airport worker in Illinois, began making paintings, many of which depict landscapes and boldly colored skies or refer to nature’s forces. In recent years, Hana Pietri Gallery in Chicago has been making Sullins’ achievements better known. Free access to this article.
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