What's to Come:
An Outsider Art Survey in a Window
July 31 - August 30, 2020
Outsiders and Others Art Society is excited to share with Vancouver a collection of works by outsider artists from Canada and beyond.
This exhibit is an opportunity to learn about the genre of Outsider Art by viewing works by some artists that are respected in the field.
Please contact us at outsidersandothers@gmail.com for availability and pricing
Howard Finster (USA, 1916-2001) was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. Heclaimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land intoParadise Garden, a folk art sculpture garden with over 46,000 pieces of art.
www.paradisegardenfoundation.org/
Howard Finster
Yoke of Faith
Silk screen on fabric
Open edition
18" x 13"
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George Gordienko (Canada, 1928-2002), was a Canadian professional wrestler and artist. Born of first generation Ukrainian and Cossack-Canadian parents in North Winnipeg, Manitoba.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordienko
George Gordienko
Untitled (grouping)
Mixed media on found wood
24” x 6”
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George Gordienko
Mad Hatter
Mixed media on found wood
29” x 8” x 8"
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George Gordienko
Untitled (small head)
Mixed media on found wood
6” x 3" x 3"
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Amy Rice (USA), is a fine artist and printmaker from the Midwest who creates work that connects to childhood memeories of growing up on a farm.
www.amy-rice-qvit.squarespace.com
Amy Rice
Installation Project
Stencil with mixed media
20.5” x 16.5”
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Amy Rice
Closed System (You Have Been the Wind in My Sails)
Stencil with mixed media
16.5” x 20.5”
SOLD
Damian Michaels (Australia), At the age of eight, Michaels experienced his first epiphany, in the form of a visitation from his dead cousin Annie. Michaels has experienced various levels of openness to visionary experience, although he believes that in general children ‘experience déjà vu and other phenomena more regularly than adults’, who are somewhat ‘dulled to their world’.
www.rawvision.com/articles/damian-michaels-ordinary-everyday-extraordinary
Damian Michaels
Untitled (00191)
Ink on paper
5.75” x 8.25”
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Anne Grgich (USA), is one of the most original and innovative of the group of American artists known as “Outsiders.” Completely self-taught, her work was the cover story of Raw Vision Magazine in 2004, she became known for her impassioned, expressionistic faces and figures.
www.annegrgich.com
Fahima Lalli (USA), is from Afghanistan and has always been a spiritual person. At one point in her life she started waking up in the middle of the night finding that she has created images that represent faces which she feels are lost souls. All of her work is created in an unconcious state.
Fahima Lalli
20 Faces
Acrylic on paper
10” x 8”
Not for Sale
Jack Procter (Canada), is a painter, sculptor and maker of intricate collages. Inspired by
Alexander Calder, Joan Miro, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the Inuit, Frank Stella, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet, Procter’s “RAW ART RAW VISION” draws upon intuition, design, assemblage, and the art outsider French movement of art brut, "raw art" or "rough art" often associated with the work of Dubuffet.
Jack Procter
Lippy Potato Head
25” x 17” x 10”
Enamel on wood and metal
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W. C. Rice (USA, 1930-2004), a visionary folk figure, was born in Bibb County, Alabama. Rev. Rice was, by his own appraisal, not an artist but a born again man on a mission to save souls and warn others of the dangers of sinful living.
www.spacesarchives.org/explore/search-the-online-collection/cross-garden/
Bill Borden (USA), loves to create images of the everyday in bold colours, and with strong lines. This heavy hand is consistent in all of his work which is part of it's power and connection to pop art of the 60's.
Bill Borden
Watermelon
Pencil, pastel on paper
6.5” x 5”
SOLD
Mr. Imagination (USA, 1948-2012), also know as Gregory Warmack, was an American outsider artist who worked in a variety of forms and his work often made use of sandstone and bottlecaps.
www.americanart.si.edu/artist/mr-imagination-gregory-warmack-5849
Gregory Warmack aka Mr. Imagination
Snake
Mixed media
44” long
SOLD