Tag: Outsider Art
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Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists
The amazing story of an artist, who saw herself as a contemporary prophet, and made patchwork artworks inspired by the Apocrypha
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Frieze New York 2019
This year’s fair demonstrated a more open-ended approach than usual, exhibiting and promoting diverse art-making practices. By devoting attention to new trends, as well as to forgotten and little-known artists, the organisers created a well-balanced and engaging display
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Anj Smith: ‘The figure is a device on which to hang my concerns’
The artist talks about the collapsing of genres, her desire to portray identity post gender and painting as a metaphor for something eternal
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Martín Ramírez: Forever
Martín Ramírez, an “outsider” artist from Mexico, who spent most of his life in US mental institutions, created enduring images of his native land and his life before confinement, bringing the importance of emotional experience to the forefront of art-making
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Nico van der Endt interview: ‘Willem van Genk was a visionary, a man discovering a universal truth about the human species’
Willem van Genk, one of the most fascinating outsider artists, is featured in a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum. Studio International talks with his longtime dealer, Nico van der Endt, for a personal view of the artist
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Outsider Art comes Full Circle – ‘John the Painter’
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 12 February–8 June 2003.
