NOW ON VIEW
SHUT UP:
JOE MASSEY’S MESSAGE FROM PRISON
September 12 – October 19, 2019
Massey (1895 – ?) was an African-American self-taught artist and poet who created a compelling body of work during his incarceration at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. As an inmate, Massey engaged in a years-long correspondence with Charles Henri Ford, the editor of the pioneering surrealist publication View, which resulted in the eventual inclusion of Massey’s art and poetry in issues of the magazine between 1943 and 1946.
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Preface: Kimberly Reyes
Introduction: Alejandra Russi
96 Pages
NEWS
Gathering masterful artworks from Victor Keen’s collection, Outsider & Vernacular Art presents works by more than forty outsider artists, in addition to folk and vernacular art and including one of the most comprehensive collections of Catalin radios from the 1920s to the 1940s. Published to accompany a major exhibition opening on Oct. 5 at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in Pueblo, Colorado and traveling to Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in February 2020.
Essays by Frank Maresca, Edward M. Gómez, and Lyle Rexer. Biographical texts by Alejandra Russi. Edited by Laura Lindgren. Published by Hirmer Verlag. 272 pages, 243 illustrations.
Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler
At the American Folk Art Museum[September 17, 2019 – January 26, 2020] The collection of Audrey B. Heckler is emblematic of the growth of the field of self-taught art in the United States, which manifests a strong interest in African American artists, American classics, European art brut, and a search for international discoveries.
“Memory Palaces” includes 160 works by more than 70 artists,
Pictured: Martín Ramírez.
Untitled (Galleon on Water),
ca. 1960-63. Gouache,
colored pencil, and graphite on pieced paper. 33″ x 24″
Our new collaboration with Demisch Danant, an exhibition titled “Jazz,” highlights the unrecognized affinities between French 1950s furniture design and works depicting architecture by William Hawkins.
On view: September 10 – October 19
Demisch Danant
30 W 12th St. New York, NY 10011
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“A mysterious figure of the Outsider Art field, African American artist and poet Joe Massey was serving time for murder in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus when the surrealist magazine View began printing his submissions, alongside works by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.” —Sarah Cascone
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Pictured: Joe Massey. “Walking on one leg and hand,” 1946. Ink on paper. 11 x 8.5 in.
EVENTS
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art: Visionary Ball 2019
Thursday, September 26
Honoring
John Maizels, founder and publisher of Raw Vision magazine
Jennifer Siegenthaler, Terra Foundation for American Art
Xavier Ramey, Justice Informed
Honorary Chairs: Cleo Wilson and Robert A. Roth
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art: Visionary Ball 2019
Thursday, September 26
Honoring
John Maizels, founder and publisher of Raw Vision magazine
Jennifer Siegenthaler, Terra Foundation for American Art
Xavier Ramey, Justice Informed
Honorary Chairs: Cleo Wilson and Robert A. Roth
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NOTEWORTHY
Alison Weld: Earthly Abstract
On view: September 4 – October 12
The Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery
at SUNY Geneseo
The works in this exhibit encompass several different series, each a plastic treatise on the organic. That is, from considerations of nature, the Adirondack landscape, forests, stars, clouds, day/night, color, and music. She writes: “the color captures the earthly abstract,” meaning, nature has been reoriented and transformed.
Pictured:
Alison Weld. Inner Strata 4, 2017. Oil on linen. 50″ x 36″