FROM | Outsider Art Magazine is pleased to announce the release of issue nine.
FROM | Outsider Art Magazine is pleased to announce the release of issue nine. Thank you for all the patience and art submissions. Below you will find all artists inside issue nine.
die Fragmentierte Mutter (Fragmented Mother ) | mixed media | 100x 75 cm
I am a self taught, emerging, Mixed Media Artist. I started producing art and exhibiting professionally in 2017. Taking a brief hiatus in 2019 to recover from a brain hemorrhage, which had a profound effect on my art practice and outlook on life in general.
My Art practice became both therapeutic and healing. My influences and reference points are vast and complex. Drawn from my London City upbringing, sexuality, my stroke, human interactions, music and fascinations My images, saturated in colour, a hang over from album sleeves, TV, video and movie special effects from the era I grew up in. Starting life from an early age in the performing arts; of Film and Television, I landed in a cradle of creativity.
But later worked in the music business, finance and the Probation service, so my art practice came late in life to me. If I had to name influences I would say photographers Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Patty Carroll and Robert Doisneau. Artists that inspire me include Werner Buttner, Norman Rockwell, Francis Bacon and Jean – Michael Basiquiat.
But I also delight in the visceral brutishness of Artemisia Gentileschi and the surreal world inhabited by Leonora Carrington I am adventurous and experimental, both on canvas and behind the lens. I am labelled an automatic artist, unless commission to great a desired image, my work just unfolds unplanned and organic.
I create Pop Art and Abstract work; stylised illustrations and sketches, using oil sticks, brush markers, charcoal and acrylics. I am a pioneer of British Smartphone Photographic PhoneArtists. Under strict control parameters I am pushing the boundaries of Smartphones and free android apps to the limit. I never use preset effects or photoshop, preferring the creative freedoms that playing with light, colour and contrasts can bring. Whilst exploring the possibilities of the digital medium as a permanent extension to ourselves, through which the creative process is immediately accessible to everyone.
This work is produced entirely from photographic images, shot and edited on the tiny screen of my smartphone and only sees a PC to resize for printing or colour checking. Hence the resultant resultant body of my work in this field now sits under my banner – #tinyeyeproject.
Ice Cream City Livin’ | Digital Smartphone Photography PhoneArt | 59.4 X 84.1 cms / 23.3/8 X33.1/8 inches
Battersea Power!!! | Digital Smartphone Photography PhoneArt | 59.4 X 84.1 cms / 23.3/8 X 33.1/8 inches
The Death of Dante | Acrylic on Box Canvas | 58.42 X 58.42 cms / 23 X 23 inches
VainGlorious | Acrylic On Box Canvas | 58.42 X 58.42 cms / 23 X 23 inches
(An artist’s statement can be a few sentences or a short paragraph long. Generally, an artist statement should only be between 100-200 words because shorter statements are better for the average attention span.)
All “Outsider” visual art forms and Artists are acceptable. – Outsider Art, Folk Art, Brut Art, Naïve Art, Self-Taught, Intuitive Art, Neuve Invention, Visionary, Raw, Underground Art, Lowbrow, and Art We Really Like, etc …
If your art does not meet our “Outsider” criteria then it will not be accepted into the magazine. If you are an artist who specializes in Fine Art, Contemporary Art, etc … Please head on over to Artist Portfolio Magazine (our sister magazine) and submit your art to that magazine.
For more information please check out the Submit Your Art page.
A Big thank you to all of the Artists who submitted art to issue seven and congratulations to all who have been selected for this issue.
In a few days we will be announcing a new call for art for Issue Eight. … Stay Tuned!
Artists in Issue Seven
Dennis Corrigan – Front Cover Artist TA Riney – Back Cover Artist
Marilyn Richeda
Songnyeo Lyoo
Claude Bolduc
Nathan Paddison
Matina Vossou
Johnny Otto
Kathy Halper
Susan Spangenberg
Kieun Kim
Susan Lizotte
Helen Wade
Marcela Conomos
Binna Kim
Fake Art
Robert Frankel
Sandor Sipos
Thomas Riesner
Martin Coyle
Rodney Bode
Terry Graff
Lou Patrou
Paulina Klimek-Cornett
Daniel Bell
Abbott Philson
Sophie Jacobs
Darrell Black
Lyncara Beshirs
Basile OSO
Releah Michelle
My Darrell Urban Black, an American visual artist presently living in Frankfurt, Germany. I work in a variety of formats that include Pen and Ink drawings, acrylic paintings on canvas wood and Mixed media objects. My creative process is a mixture of works on paper, acrylic paint, found objects and non toxic hot glue which creates a three-dimensional effect on any surface that gives a sense of realism and presence in my artwork. I refer to this optical artistic illusion as “Definism” which portrays various differences in human nature from life’s everyday dramas to humankind’s quest to under-standing self. “My artworks transport viewers from the doldrums of their daily reality to a visual interpretation of another reality.”
Darrell Urban Black born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in Far Rockaway and Brentwood Long Island New York. In high school, he excelled in science with an affinity for outer space. In June 1969, as America fulfilled J. F. Kennedy’s dream to put the American Stars and Stripes into the dusty surface of the moon Darrell’s fascination with spaceships grew. As a child he made spaceship models eventually placing his artistic visions on paper resulting in some 500 drawings. Phantasmal spaceships that eventually carried Darrell to a unique wonderland of strange forms and colors.
In 1982, he joined the National Guard. During this time his previous drawings were lost – but not his passion. In 1988, Darrell, joined the US Army and served another four years. Earned his Bachelor Degree in Science of Criminal Justice Administration at the University of Phoenix. In April 2001, Darrell, was nominated by the German government as a “candidate of the year’s prize for promising young artists” for his artwork titled “The Invasion” in the exhibition “The Zeppelin in Art, Design, and Advertisement,” shown between May and July 30, 2000, in the Frankfurt International Airport. Another piece referenced in the nomination letter, was titled “The Cosmic Shroud,” executed with a unique glue and acrylic on linen technique. The image was described as “universally appealing and representing a topic which concerns all of us – The Universe.” Darrell, had many local, national and international group art exhibitions. He has artwork permanently displayed in a number of art Galleries, Museums and other Institutions Worldwide. Darrell’s artwork has also been displayed on billboard in New York’s Times Square for the exhibition titled: “SeeMe Takes over Times Square 2014”
Darrell lives in Frankfurt, Germany and continues to draw and paint in pursuit of his artistic dreams. He’s a member of the Veteran Artist Program abroad (EuroVAP).
Empty Shell | Pen and Ink drawing | 11 in by 8 in
Self Portrait in the Age of Coronavirus | Pen and Ink drawing | 11 in by 8 in
Dark Soul | Pen and Ink drawing | 11 in by 8 in
A Really Bad Trip | Pen and Ink drawing | 11in by 8 in
Rodney Bode is an American painter and sculptor whose life and art have remained outside the boundaries of culture. Born in 1941, and having lived most of his adult life in rural Idaho and South Dakota, Bode is an outsider artist whose vast collection of paintings and sculpture were only recently discovered after his institutionalization in the South Dakota state psychiatric hospital where he is being treated for schizophrenia. Bode will be 80 years old September, 2021.
The label ‘Outsider Art’ created by Jean Dubuffet in the 1940s, certainly describes Rod Bode’s prolific collections of paintings and sculpture. Created in the sparse rural areas in Idaho and the plains of western South Dakota, unseen by the public, Bode’s “self-taught” creations were certainly “produced beyond the boundaries of the mainstream art world.”
Painted Pony / no.2051 | Sculpture – Iron, Pony Skull, Beads, Found Objects | 67″h x 41″w x 25″d
Brother Von Stauffenberg / no.1219 | Acrylic on Canvas | 63″h x 29″w
Horsemanship / no.2054 | Sculpture – Iron, Found Objects | 68″h x 30″w x 23″d
Blue Moon / no.1225 | Acrylic on Canvas | 70″h x 52″w
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