UPCOMING
THOMAS LYON MILLS: LIMINAL SPACE
JULY 11 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
“All my work begins with my dreams recorded in sketchbooks with narratives and drawings,” writes the artist. “These dreams are often prophetic, telling me where I need to travel to work – to make one world, one cosmology, where the seen and the unseen co-exist. Once my dreams have led me to a site, I develop my pieces slowly, carrying them back and forth between sites, cross-pollinating ideas, locations, and subject matter – all united in the studio. Time is no longer linear, but elastic, continuous and circular.”
(Mon – Fri: 10 am – 6 pm).
NEWS
Join us tonight (7/17), from 6–8pm for the second annual ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk
30 ADAA member galleries will stay open until 8pm for a rare after-hours look at some of the most dynamic summer exhibitions in NYC.
At Ricco/Maresca, from 7pm – 8pm, the critic, curator, and writer Edward M. Gómez will give a talk about our new exhibition “Thomas Lyon Mills: Liminal Space” and present an overview of the fields of Self-Taught and Outsider Art. Wine will be served.
PRESS
“Rocaterrania is more akin to the philosophically engaging fairylands of Narnia and Oz … Kuhler worked professionally as a scientific illustrator and his drawings in that capacity are finished to an extraordinary level of precision and crispness. His depictions of Rocaterrania are by contrast wonderfully loose, yet still maintain the intensely patterned inking techniques of that technical genre of drawing: cross-hatching, stippling, and details that imitate etching and aquatint printing. The base on which they are drawn is often sheets of lined paper from notebooks, which only adds to the mad-scientist quality of Kuhler’s creative process.” – William Corwin [READ MORE]
“This first-ever commercial-gallery showing of a selection of Kuhler’s drawings, along with a few objects, offered viewers a good sense of the character and scope of his Rocaterrania creation. Images of ornately decorated buildings, along with those of royal figures, spies, athletes and ‘neutants;’ Kuhler’s physically fit, androgynous young adults, referred to his imaginary country’s civic institutions and social hierarchy. Some of the artist’s pictures portrayed aspects of its landscape, too … There is more of Kuhler’s fantasy country still to be discovered. This exhibition opened the door, enticingly, to further exploration of its curiosities and surprises”. – Edward M. Gómez [READ MORE]
“The coming of age of outsider art is part of a larger reckoning throughout the canon of 20th-century art history. Once presented as a linear story of mainly white men in Paris and New York one-upping each other in a series of movements, the narrative of modern art is changing. In the past 10 years or so, museums and the market have been expanding their modernist purview to include artists previously overlooked on the basis of race, nationality, gender, education and sophistication. These days, a multitude of less tidy, less easily categorised and, arguably, much more interesting histories of art are coming to the fore” – Pernilla Holmes [READ MORE]
“From The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler by Brett Ingram. Published by Blast Books in 2017. Renaldo Kuhler was a scientific illustrator for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. He spent sixty years creating Rocaterrania, an imaginary country located on the Canada–United States border. Brett Ingram is an author, filmmaker, edu-cator, visual artist and the director of the Renaldo Kuhler Archive.” [READ MORE]