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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.
IN THE MOOD FOR A LITTLE MANIFESTO?
brutjournal’s founder and editor in chief, the art critic, art historian, and curator Edward M. Gómez, sets the scene and the agenda for the new magazine, describing its thematic scope and the ideas and interests that inspired him and a group of collaborators to create a new publication focusing on, as its masthead announces, “outsider art, art brut, the unclassifiable, and the avant-avant-garde.” (What the heck is “the avant-avant-garde”?) As Edward explains, as much as we’ll be examining new, experimental, and innovative ways of making, showing, and living with art, we’ll also be looking at how various aspects of already familiar art forms and of everyday life can still be seen as radically inventive, depending on how you regard and appreciate them. Read his introduction here.
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JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER’S NEW ART PRESERVE OPENS
On June 26, 2021, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s new Art Preserve building will celebrate its grand opening. This spacious annex to the arts center’s nearby main building will house its vast, diverse collections of outsider and self-taught artists’ creations in visible-storage settings. It will offer a wide range of educational programs inspired by and illuminating those varied holdings.
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“ART IN THE AGE OF NOW”: ART POINTING A WAY FORWARD, OUT OF THE PANDEMIC
From London, Cathy Ward reports:
LONDON — Lockdown has had its plus sides. Having been handed keys to a Grade II-listed, former town hall, which would serve as the venue for Art in the Age of Now, a large exhibition featuring 100 artists’ works, curator Ben Moore was allowed to gradually install a vast assortment of art over a considerable period of time, including many sculptures and assemblages. Although the exhibition recently closed, on June 20, it generated plenty of excitement and suggested that, maybe, at last, London’s artistic community could begin re-emerging following a long, anxiety-filled period of pandemic-imposed confinement...
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