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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.
PIETRO GHIZZARDI’S VIVID PORTRAITS
Pietro Ghizzardi: The Sea and a Beautiful Woman to Kiss, an exhibition of depictions of women by an Italian self-taught artist who died in 1986, and whose works are admired by art brut aficionados, focuses on a generalized kind of beauty. From Milan, Davide Macchiarini reports.
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JULIA SISI: WINTER AND BEYOND
The artist Julia Sisi was born in Argentina, lived for several years in Spain, and now lives and works in a small town in France. In this baby-it’s-cool-outside season of warm grog and chill, she shares a winter-themed picture and some other works with us and tells us about her working methods.
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THE LANGUAGE OF ABSTRACTION: JOHN CRAWFORD FORGES ON
A new series of articles by Edward M. Gómez looks at the enduring appeal and expressive power of abstract art, both for artists and viewers of their creations. First up: The New York-based sculptor John Crawford, who works on a large scale, teasing meaning and emotion out of heavy metals. Forge!
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JED PERL’S NEW BOOK: AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM — AND THE ARTS
In his new book, Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts, the art critic, essayist, and educator Jed Perl argues forcefully that the arts are inherently independent, guided by laws and a logic of their own. Edward M. Gómez reviews this insightful look at art’s essence. Free access to this article.
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BABY, IT'S TOO COLD FOR PHOTOS
Despite the cold, the photographer Bill Westmoreland headed out after recent snowstorms in New York City and northern Pennsylvania to shoot a portfolio of images capturing nature’s play of light and shadow, and some unusual forms — and their uncanny evocations of modernist aesthetics in urban and rural landscapes during the chilly season. A wintertime photo essay.
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