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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.
TODAY'S ART DISCOVERY
The French art brut creator André Robillard recently celebrated his 90th birthday, and although he has stopped making the mixed-media rifles for which he has become well known (using everything from old metal, machine parts to stuffed-animal toys), he continues producing other assemblage-sculptural works and many drawings. He’s still fascinated by rockets and outer space. See our article about Robillard on the BIG PAGE. Above: The artist’s undated statuette of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who, in 1961, became the first human to journey into space.
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FROM CAMERA TO PAINTBRUSH: MAKING PICTURES WITH STEVEN HIRSCH
Steven Hirsch was born and grew up in New York, where he lives today. As a child, he began using cameras and, later, became a tabloid-newspaper photographer. In recent years, he has turned to painting. As a self-taught artist, he finds ideas and inspiration on society's fringes. Here, he tells us how, where, and why.
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MAKE ART, NOT WASTE: LET DAN KNIGHT REVIVE, REIMAGINE, AND TRANSFORM YOUR TRASH
Dan Knight creates art “infused with a celebratory, joyous vibe” using water, sound, electricity, and cast-off materials galore, from bottles to old appliances. Our London-based artist-correspondent, Cathy Ward, reports on Kinght’s magical, transformative touch.
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EDWARD M. GOMEZ: SO, JUST WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART?
“Art brut” refers to hard-to-classify creations made by untrained artists on mainstream culture and society’s margins. What about “outsider art” and “self-taught art”? Are they all equivalent terms? Edward M. Gómez reports. Free access to this article.
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OUTSIDER ART: THE 2022 FAIR, THE FIELD, THE LABEL. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH OUTSIDER ART FAIR OWNER-PRODUCER ANDREW EDLIN
The 2022 Outsider Art Fair is scheduled to take place in New York from March 3 to March 6. Taking stock of news and debates in the outsider-art field, OAF owner Andrew Edlin spoke with brutjournal editor in chief Edward M. Gómez in advance of the big event. Free access to this article.
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