Artemio Rodriguez - new website

Artemio Rodriguez has a new website. 

To learn more about Rodriguez, click on his name in the list to the right.

click here to visit the site

Venkat Raman Singh Shyam - new work

Born in 1970, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam is ten years younger than his uncle, Jangarh Singh Shyam. When they were boys, they were close friends.

It was Vankat's uncle who taught him how to paint.

After Jangarh's suicide in 2001, Vankat committed all of his efforts to his own painting.

Recently, Vankat has created new paintings that transcend the Gond tradition which, in the past, informed his work. Clearly, elements of Gond art can be found on these canvases, but many of the visual elements emerge from Vankat's own imagination.

To read more about Gond art and Jangarh Singh Shyam, click on "Shyam" in the list to the right.

Click here to visit Venkat Raman Singh Shyam’s web site

Sopheap Pich - at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Cambodian Rattan - The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich is an exhibition currently up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. The show will be at the Met until July 7.

In addition, his work will be on view at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in NYC until June 14.

To read about Pich, click on his name in the list to the right.

Click here to see Pich’s work at the Met

Click here to see Pich’s work at Rollins

Great and Mighty Things - reviewed by Roberta Smith

New York Times arts reporter Roberta Smith has written about the "Great and Mighty Things" exhibition, currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Smith is one of the few American writers who truly understands this work.

Over the years she has consistently championed the efforts of so called "Outsiders". As mentioned on this site in earlier posts, the "Great and Mighty Things" exhibition presents work from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection.

All the art in the exhibition will in time be gifted to the museum.

This significance of this gift is not lost on Smith.

She writes-

"Other American museums have received caches of outsider art, among them the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington and the Milwaukee Art Museum, albeit usually folded into donations of folk art. But the Bonovitz gift, whose focus is entirely on 20th-century American outsiders, is especially high-profile because it is going to a major encyclopedic museum, and an East Coast one at that. This prominence could have a ripple effect at other institutions of its scale."

To read more about Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, click on their name in the list on the right.

click here to read Smith’s article

Gond and Beyond - Indigo Arts

A new exhibition, Gond and Beyond, Tribal Artists from India, opens April 11 at Indigo Arts in Philadelphia. This is a rare opportunity to see lesser known Indian art forms.

click here to visit the Indigo Arts site and learn more about the exhibition

Robert Martinez - Open Studio / Outsider Gallery

Robert Martinez is one of the self-taught artists working at the Open Studio / Outsider Gallery in Gallup, New Mexico. The studio/gallery shows the efforts of self-taught artists and academically trained artists together without distinctions or qualifiers.

Martinez, who is in his mid-fifties and of Navajo ancestry, paints vibrant works. Some of Martinez's images are grounded in the natural world he knows, while other works are imagined.

Upcoming Documentary - Olayami Dabls and Dmytro Szylak

A documentary by Nikki Sasson on Detroit artists Olayami Dabls and Dmytro Szlak is currently in production.

Click here to visit the film’s official site and see a bit of the work in progress

Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan - at the Wellcome Collection, London

The Wellcome Collection’s spring exhibition, 'Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan', brings together more than 300 works from 46 artists, for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK.

To visit the Wellcome Collection’s site, click here

The Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection - at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

                          

"Great and Mighty Things" : Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection - March 3, 2013 to June 9, 2013

From the museum's web site - "The power of self-taught artistic talent, the drive of the human spirit to create, and the wonders of highly original inner worlds revealed. These are just a few of the reasons why the Philadelphia Museum of Art is proud to debut the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, a promised gift to the Museum of more than two hundred works by self-taught artists."

click here to view the collection

Jangarh Singh Shyam - at Saffronart

These early works by Jangarh Singh Shyam are being offered at Saffronart in their February "Indian Folk & Tribal Art" sale. Rarely do Shyam's drawing come on to the market.

To read more about Shyam, click on his name on the list to the right.

click here to view the on line catalog

Susanna Bauer - in HandEye

Click here to read, Inconspicuous Things, an article about the work of Susanna Bauer.

Pushpa Kumari - mother earth drawings

Three new works by Pushpa Kumari on the theme of Mother Earth.

Click on the drawing to see a larger image.

Click on her name on the list to the right to learn more about Kumari.

Pushpa Kumari - 9/11 drawing

Like many artists around the world, Pushpa Kumari has returned many times to the theme of the 9/11 tragedy.

This is her most recent effort.

Click on her name on the list to the right to learn more about Kumari.

Three Drawings by Ganesh Jogi

Click on "Ganesh and Teju" in the list to the right to learn more about Ganesh.

A Group of Shrinathji Paintings - in a private collection

To learn more about Shrinathji painting,

click on "Krishna/Shrinathji/Nathadwara" in the list to the right.