March 2023
Outsider Art Fair NYC
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#BillTraylor. Untitled (Black Fish), ca. 1939-42. Colored pencil on found cardboard. 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) [PRIVATE COLLECTION]
This work is illustrated in RiccoMaresca’s book “Bill Traylor: His Art, His Life” (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991) and included in the gallery’s OustiderArtFair Paris online viewing room | Link in profile
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Although emancipated as a boy, Bill Traylor (1854-1949) continued to labor until 1908 on a neighboring plantation in Benton, Alabama—near where he was born into slavery.
By 1910 he was a tenant farmer near Montgomery and it was only when he was in his eighties, and no longer able to do physical work, that he started making art with materials that lay to hand, learning to write his name so he could sign his work. From 1939 to 1942, Traylor produced more than 1,200 drawings that are of crucial significance in American art and social history.
Traylor’s posthumous recognition has expanded steadily ever since his death in 1949, and today his work is in important private and museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), and the Smithsonian Museum (Washington D.C.).
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#onlineviewingroom #onlineonly #RiccoMaresca #FrankMarescaArt
![#BillTraylor. Untitled (Black Fish), ca. 1939-42. Colored pencil on found cardboard. 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) [PRIVATE COLLECTION]
This work is illustrated in RiccoMaresca’s book “Bill Traylor: His Art, His Life” (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991) and included in the gallery’s OustiderArtFair Paris online viewing room | Link in profile
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Although emancipated as a boy, Bill Traylor (1854-1949) continued to labor until 1908 on a neighboring plantation in Benton, Alabama—near where he was born into slavery.
By 1910 he was a tenant farmer near Montgomery and it was only when he was in his eighties, and no longer able to do physical work, that he started making art with materials that lay to hand, learning to write his name so he could sign his work. From 1939 to 1942, Traylor produced more than 1,200 drawings that are of crucial significance in American art and social history.
Traylor’s posthumous recognition has expanded steadily ever since his death in 1949, and today his work is in important private and museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), and the Smithsonian Museum (Washington D.C.).
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#art #modernart #SelfTaughtArt #OutsiderArt #AfricanAmericanArt #AmericanArt #worksonpaper #coloredpencil #fish #bigfish #blackfish #monochrome #fins #swimming #floating #figurativeabstract #representation #memory #formandfunction #drawing #negativespace #animalportrait #OutsiderArtFair #OAFParis2022
#onlineviewingroom #onlineonly #RiccoMaresca #FrankMarescaArt](https://ml5bgczqplpy.i.optimole.com/cb:hODz.1fe94/w:auto/h:auto/q:mauto/f:avif/https://xzib.com/art/sb-instagram-feed-images/308907489_1250960302336799_4824063971734254896_nlow.jpg)
The Outsider Art Fair, the premiere event devoted to self-taught work, opened yesterday. The idea of this being a separate category has long been under fire for being a contrived distinction. Nellie Mae Rowe just had a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, Joseph Yoakum’s landscapes were featured at MoMA, and David Zwirner had a very large exhibition of works by James Castle. Yet, despite this, the self-taught world still appears to operate as a separate social network. Jerry Saltz and Matthew Higgs were there, but I didn’t see any painters I knew. With 64 booths, the fair is a dizzying visual overload. Many booths by the major dealers featured art by already established artists. If I had to pick a single highlight, it was Joseph Roth’s “Merry Christmass [sic] and Happy New Year” (1913). The embroidered textile or sampler (1 & 2) by a little-known institutionalized artist, written in a combination of German and English, in the booth of Steven S. Powers. The piece is a knockout, and connects to the brilliant textiles by the Brazilian artist Bispo do Rosário currently featured at the Americas Society. Other standout works include: Miles Carpenter “Untitled (Woman with Dog),” 1972, at Fleisher/ Ollman (3); a series of miniature “handmade books by James Castle (4) at Hirschl & Adler; an Adolph Wölfli drawing (1919) at Carl Hammer (5); a sculpture of a woman and dog by S. L. Jones at Michigan’s Hill Gallery (6); a Nellie Mae Rowe self-portrait (1982) at Andrew Edlin (7); an early 20th century ventriloquist dummy (8) in the booth of Joshua Lowenfels; and Wandada Leo Simith’s musical composition (9) at Zürcher Gallery. In addition, there was a curated space “We Are Birds” by Andrew Edlin and Randall Poster, which featured several great pieces of birds, including one (10) by Minnie Evans (1981). andrewedlingallery outsiderartfair stevenspowers #outsiderart #outsiderartist #selftaughtartist #modernart #modernartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #contemporarysculpture #contemporarydrawing #outsiderartfair
![The Outsider Art Fair, the premiere event devoted to self-taught work, opened yesterday. The idea of this being a separate category has long been under fire for being a contrived distinction. Nellie Mae Rowe just had a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum, Joseph Yoakum’s landscapes were featured at MoMA, and David Zwirner had a very large exhibition of works by James Castle. Yet, despite this, the self-taught world still appears to operate as a separate social network. Jerry Saltz and Matthew Higgs were there, but I didn’t see any painters I knew. With 64 booths, the fair is a dizzying visual overload. Many booths by the major dealers featured art by already established artists. If I had to pick a single highlight, it was Joseph Roth’s “Merry Christmass [sic] and Happy New Year” (1913). The embroidered textile or sampler (1 & 2) by a little-known institutionalized artist, written in a combination of German and English, in the booth of Steven S. Powers. The piece is a knockout, and connects to the brilliant textiles by the Brazilian artist Bispo do Rosário currently featured at the Americas Society. Other standout works include: Miles Carpenter “Untitled (Woman with Dog),” 1972, at Fleisher/ Ollman (3); a series of miniature “handmade books by James Castle (4) at Hirschl & Adler; an Adolph Wölfli drawing (1919) at Carl Hammer (5); a sculpture of a woman and dog by S. L. Jones at Michigan’s Hill Gallery (6); a Nellie Mae Rowe self-portrait (1982) at Andrew Edlin (7); an early 20th century ventriloquist dummy (8) in the booth of Joshua Lowenfels; and Wandada Leo Simith’s musical composition (9) at Zürcher Gallery. In addition, there was a curated space “We Are Birds” by Andrew Edlin and Randall Poster, which featured several great pieces of birds, including one (10) by Minnie Evans (1981). andrewedlingallery outsiderartfair stevenspowers #outsiderart #outsiderartist #selftaughtartist #modernart #modernartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contemporaryartist #contemporarysculpture #contemporarydrawing #outsiderartfair](https://ml5bgczqplpy.i.optimole.com/cb:hODz.1fe94/w:auto/h:auto/q:mauto/f:avif/https://xzib.com/art/sb-instagram-feed-images/333603074_3549631711927512_653628769853324213_nlow.jpg)
Outsider Art Fair New York 2023
Today`s the last day to catch OAF New York at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Scroll through to see some of my fabulous faves.
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INFO
Dates / Times
VIP & Press Preview:
Thursday, March 2nd: 12–6pm
Vernissage:
Thursday, March 2nd: 6-9pm
Open to the Public:
Friday, March 3rd: 11am-8pm
Saturday, March 4th: 11am-8pm
Sunday, March 5th: 11am-6pm
Tickets
1 day pass $44
Run of Fair $75
Vernissage $65
2023 Exhibitors
Aarne Anton / Nexus Singularity (New York, NY)
Bill Arning Exhibitions (Houston, TX)
Art Sales & Research (New York, NY)
ArTech Collective (Bronx, NY)
Arts of Life/Circle Contemporary (Chicago, IL)
James Barron Art (Kent, CT)
bG Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Norman Brosterman (New York, NY)
Cavin-Morris Gallery (New York, NY)
Center for Creative Works (Wynnewood, PA)
Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland, CA)
Creativity Explored (San Francisco, CA)
SARAHCROWN (New York, NY)
Daniel / Oliver (Brooklyn, NY)
Alexander Dijulio (New York, NY)
Dutton (New York, NY)
Andrew Edlin Gallery (New York, NY)
Donald Ellis (New York, NY)
Feheley Fine Arts (Toronto, CA)
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery (Philadelphia, PA)
Forest Grove Preserve, Inc. (Sandersville, GA)
Fountain House Gallery (New York, NY)
Emilia Galatis Projects (South Fremantle, AU)
Carl Hammer Gallery (Chicago, IL)
Marion Harris (New York, NY)
Hill Gallery (Birmingham, MI)
Hirschl & Adler (New York, NY)
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery (London, UK)
Kishka Gallery (White River Junction, VT)
koelsch gallery (Houston, TX)
Yukiko Koide Presents (Tokyo, Japan)
Kopac Committee Association/ArtRencontre (Pula, CR/Paris,FR)
Kunstraum (Nuremberg, GR)
LAND Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
Jennifer Lauren Gallery (Manchester, UK)
Galerie Pol Lemétais (Saint Sever du Moustier, FR)
Lindsay Gallery (Columbus, OH)
Joshua Lowenfels (New York, NY)
Magic Markings (Brooklyn, NY)
Mason Fine Art (Atlanta, GA)
New Discretions (New York, NY)
Nonprofessional Experiments (Milanville, PA)
North Pole Studio / Booklyn (Portland, OR / Brooklyn, NY)
The Pardee Collection (Iowa City, IA)
Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art (Milwaukee, WI)
Steven S. Powers (New York, NY)
Project Onward (Chicago, IL)
Pure Vision Arts (New York, NY)
Revival Arts (New York, NY)
Ricco/Maresca (New York, NY)
SAGE Studio (Austin, TX)
Shelter Gallery (New York, NY)
SHRINE (New York, NY)
Stellarhighway (Brooklyn, NY)
Stewart Gallery (Boise, ID)
The Valley (Taos, NM)
Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden (Dallas, TX)
Winter Works on Paper (New York, NY)
ZQ (New York, NY)
Zürcher Gallery (New York, NY)
Outsider Art Fair Video Tour in HD
Outsider Art Fair 2022 at Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan featuring 64 fantastic exhibitors from 28 cities in 8 countries, with 12 first-time exhibitors.
Thank you @Nycgalleryopenings
Outsider Art Fair NYC 2022 @ Metropolitan Pavilion
Outsider Art Fair NYC 2022 tour by Stefan, Zhuldyz, and Matt Reekie.
2023 Programming
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