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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.
NOBUMASA KUSHINO’S INTRIGUING JAPANESE ART BRUT DISCOVERIES
In Japan, Nobumasa Kushino has emerged as one of the leading, most active researchers in the outsider art field, presenting and promoting his discoveries through books, website offerings, and exhibitions. Now, meet some of the remarkable creators whose art, lives, and ideas he has documented.
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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.” Here’s our look at this powerful new volume. Coming soon.
MICHAEL NEWMAN: JAPAN IN THE INK
Born in Berkeley, California, in 1945, Michael Newman Newman grew up in the Bay Area. He served in the U.S. Navy in Japan and, later, studied at the now-legendary Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco before returning to Asia. He lived again in Japan and, later, in Taiwan, where he is based today. Newman has developed a dynamic painting technique that blends Western gestural abstraction and Eastern calligraphic brush work. Here, he shares his ideas and inspirations.
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JOEL SIMPSON’S PHOTOS: ROCK-SOLID WONDERS
The photographer Joel Simpson has traveled around the United States and overseas in search of the most unusual-looking, natural-rock and other geological formations. His images of these remarkable expressions of nature’s energy and powers have been assembled in a new edition of a book featuring his striking photos.
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ANN CECIL-STERMAN’S PAINTINGS: TAKING THE PULSE OF PSYCHIC CURRENTS IN VISIBLE, ABSTRACT FORM
In New York, Ann Cecil-Sterman, a specialist in acupuncture and an ancient Chinese healing technique based on multilayered readings of the human pulse, gives vivid expression in richly patterned paintings to her research findings, about which she leads workshops and has written extensively.
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