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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.
"BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS": THE NEW FILM AND THE FILMMAKER, JEFFREY WOLF
Cinematographer and cinephile Chris Shields reviews Jeffrey Wolf’s new film about the life and art-making career of the American self-taught draftsman Bill Traylor, who was born in Alabama toward the end of the slavery era and created one of the most boldly inventive bodies of work of any artist of the 20th century.
Read the Shields review here.
brutjournal’s U.S.A. West Coast bureau chief, Sarah Fensom, spoke with Jeffrey Wolf about the research that went into and the making of his informative new film, the first on-screen examination of Traylor’s life.
Read Fensom’s report here.
IN THE FRAME: A Tribute To Mose Tolliver
Read — and watch — the New York-based photographer and art collector Bill Westmoreland's tribute to the self-taught artist Mose Tolliver.
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HELGA ROTTERDAM GOUDA: AS I SEE IT
My darlings, what are we to make of the news that we are now living in a so-called post-truth age? Huh? What the heck does that mean? I’m reminded of the many millions of our fellow members of the human family who slogged through the long, grim decades of the former Soviet Union, often joking about Pravda (“Truth”), the official newspaper of its ruling Communist Party, and about Izvestiya (“News”), the official organ of its paranoid, oppressive government. They said: “In Pravda, there is no news, and in Izvestiya, there is no truth.”
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NAM JUNE PAIK: SAN FRANCISCO RETROSPECTIVE
Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was an artist who used technology to shrink the world. Now, Nam June Paik, a sweeping, career-spanning retrospective (on view through October 3, 2021), explores Paik from every angle: as a classically trained musician, pioneering performance artist, and “father of video art,” among other notable pursuits and accomplishments.
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