Finally!!! … Outsider Art Magazine Issue Three is now available for free downloads and not free print purchases.
Congratulations to Bill Skrips whose art has landed on the cover of issue three.
Thank you to every artist who submitted their art and to those who made the cut for issue three, We are now accepting free art submissions for issue four.
Cover Artist
Bill Skrips | Cerrillos, NM
http://www.billskrips.com
@billskrips
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Featured Artist
Robert Frankel | Wilmette, IL
@robertfrankelart
I was always fascinated with the idea that colors can have an effect on our emotional, physical, and mental states. Examples of this can be found in the expressions, “seeing red” or “having the blues. I like to use bright bold colors set against each other in a geometric structure to create energy and motion.
I am a self-taught artist who has exhibited in a number of galleries which include SITE Gallery, 440 Gallery, Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City, La Galleria Pall Mall in London, and Chie Gallery in Milan. This Spring I will be exhibiting at the Saatchi-The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles, Limner Gallery in Hudson, New York, and Colorida Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal.
I am a neoOutsider artist. I’m a Southerner who came to art late in life as the result of personal trauma. My work is infused with my belief in God whose hand guides me.
Featured Artist
George Spencer | Lebanon, NH
@GR8FUL123
I am a neoOutsider artist. I’m a Southerner who came to art late in life as the result of personal trauma. My work is infused with my belief in God whose hand guides me.
Born in 1965 in Paris. Self-taught artist. I live in Rennes (Brittany, France)
In 1986, I created with Bathelemy Schwartz the revue Dorénavant, one of the first avant-garde revue of comics theory: this revue (1986 – 1988) proposed a new definition of the comic strip as a simple juxtaposition of pictures. Also, were included with the comics some paintings of Klee, Kandinsky or Picasso. This statement was also a way to create a new connection between comics and paintings: what was at stake then, was not the graphics (like for Lichtenstein or Combas) but the division of the canvas. Thanks to this, the painting would find again its very old and deep temptation: the illusion of time, which can create a narrative or a musical dimension.
The French comics’ world reacted sometimes with curiosity but most of the time with rejection. The art world ignored it.
From 1988 to 2006, I gave up painting and drawing and rather liked to write novels and essays.
Balthazar Kaplan | Rennes, France
balthazarkaplan.com
@balthazarkaplan
Born in 1965 in Paris. Self-taught artist. I live in Rennes (Brittany, France)
In 1986, I created with Bathelemy Schwartz the revue Dorénavant, one of the first avant-garde revue of comics theory: this revue (1986 – 1988) proposed a new definition of the comic strip as a simple juxtaposition of pictures. Also, were included with the comics some paintings of Klee, Kandinsky or Picasso. This statement was also a way to create a new connection between comics and paintings: what was at stake then, was not the graphics (like for Lichtenstein or Combas) but the division of the canvas. Thanks to this, the painting would find again its very old and deep temptation: the illusion of time, which can create a narrative or a musical dimension.
The French comics’ world reacted sometimes with curiosity but most of the time with rejection. The art world ignored it.
From 1988 to 2006, I gave up painting and drawing and rather liked to write novels and essays.
From 2006, a new generation of comics’ authors discovered again the revue Dorénavant. Some books and articles have been published about it. The website Du9 put online the whole revue.
At the same period, I decided to get back to drawing and painting.
May-july 2018, first exhibition in The Lavoir, in Rennes (France).
Fall 2018 : Publication of two paintings in the Parisian revue “L’Echaudée” (number 8)
January 2019, exhibit in Angoulême, during the bande dessinée festival.
June 2019, exhibit in the Rennes art market.
October 2019, exhibit in the YIA (Young International Artfair) in Paris
Articles in English about Dorévanant :
– Ann Miller, Bart Beaty, The French Comics Theory Reader, Leuven University Press, 2014
– Domingos Isabelinho, Barthélémy Schwartz’s, Balthazar Kaplan’s and Others’ Dorénavant, The Cribsheet, 14 mars 2009.
– Ann Miller, Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip, Intellect, 2007
Selected Artists | Issue Three
Finally!
We have selected our Artists for issue three. Congratulations to all the Artists who made the cut and thank you to everyone who submitted your art. On February 15, 2020, we will begin our new art submission process for issue four.
We still have a few available spots remaining for our 2 page spreads. If interested please check out this link. Deadline is February 20, 2020.
Listed (from our free/featured artists submission form) in no particular order.
Guilherme Pereira | São Paulo, Brazil
Don Bergland | Victoria, BC, Canada
Luke Whiteside | Blacksburg, VA
Branka Marković | Podgorica
Don Gilmer | Hiram, GA
Mattia Ilic | Amsterdam, Holland
Royce Brown | Los Angeles, CA
Abigail Flynt | Tacoma, WA
John Hartt | Manassas, VA
Danette Sperry | Maysville, GA
Serene Chan | Markham, Ontario, Canada
Bill Skrips | Cerrillos, NM
Milena Vig | La Spezia, Italy
Salvo Bruno | Palermo, Italy
Anton Xavier | Puyloubier, France
Dawn Waters | Gulfport, FL
Natalia Bennett | Huonville, Tasmania
Jeff Jachimiec | Dodgeville, WI
Mizuki Nishiyama | New York, NY
John van Orsouw | Palatine Bridge, NY
Carlos Bracho | Miami, FL
De’Ago Hidalgo | Jersey City, NJ
I am inspired by accidental arrangements, pareidolia and dreams . These effects produce a quality of consciousness that makes art a magical journey for me. Much of my work is automatic , it happens while I do it. I enjoy this process of discovering a narrative. When I’m not painting, I’m busy making hand made jewelry.
I am inspired by accidental arrangements, pareidolia and dreams . These effects produce a quality of consciousness that makes art a magical journey for me. Much of my work is automatic , it happens while I do it. I enjoy this process of discovering a narrative. When I’m not painting, I’m busy making hand made jewelry.
De’Ago Hidalgo | Jersey City, NJ
@deagoart
Don Bergland’s psychological creations rely upon the viewer’s internal ability to engage willingly in the process of metaphysical reflection. His dark images, featuring youthful characters, aged mentors, oddly assembled creatures, and quaintly juxtaposed objects, are rendered in precise detail in captured moments of frozen time, mechanical statements voicing eternity, death, childhood, and absurdity in the unfolding of the human drama, an uneasy combination laid before the viewer in a exposure of theatrical puppetry.
Don Bergland’s psychological creations rely upon the viewer’s internal ability to engage willingly in the process of metaphysical reflection. His dark images, featuring youthful characters, aged mentors, oddly assembled creatures, and quaintly juxtaposed objects, are rendered in precise detail in captured moments of frozen time, mechanical statements voicing eternity, death, childhood, and absurdity in the unfolding of the human drama, an uneasy combination laid before the viewer in a exposure of theatrical puppetry.
Born in Amsterdam, Holland, my family emigrated to New York in the ’60s, eventually settling in Los Angeles. Art has occupied me from my earliest recollection. As a youngster, I would travel to the public library, return with 10 art books, devour them, then return for 10 more. Though I never had any formal training or, indeed, any sort of academic career, I educated myself through visits to museums and galleries, and, of course, by doing the work. Along with an intimacy with art, I have always considered it equally important and rewarding to maintain a bond with literature, music and the liberal arts. Every artist has to invent painting for themselves. I want to create compelling and original art, and have been fortunate to find outlets for my work along the way as well as support from some people who like what I do.
Peter Hess | Los Angeles, CA
http://www.peterhessart.com
@peter_hess_art
Born in Amsterdam, Holland, my family emigrated to New York in the ’60s, eventually settling in Los Angeles. Art has occupied me from my earliest recollection. As a youngster, I would travel to the public library, return with 10 art books, devour them, then return for 10 more. Though I never had any formal training or, indeed, any sort of academic career, I educated myself through visits to museums and galleries, and, of course, by doing the work. Along with an intimacy with art, I have always considered it equally important and rewarding to maintain a bond with literature, music and the liberal arts. Every artist has to invent painting for themselves. I want to create compelling and original art, and have been fortunate to find outlets for my work along the way as well as support from some people who like what I do.
I’m Dutch/Egyptian, retired, but I was a businessman, teacher, inventor and I love challenging tasks. I’m completely self-taught, I never studied art or took any courses. I would say that my personality was formed in an Eastern society and has also been changed and affected by a Western one. My art represents the pain my family and I went through due to my daughter’s chronic illness, and it is inspired by her. One of my first jobs in Amsterdam was working as a cleaner at the Van Gogh museum, I was very impressed by the art and it helped my art career.
Bio:
I’m Dutch/Egyptian, retired, but I was a businessman, teacher, inventor and I love challenging tasks. I’m completely self-taught, I never studied art or took any courses. I would say that my personality was formed in an Eastern society and has also been changed and affected by a Western one. My art represents the pain my family and I went through due to my daughter’s chronic illness, and it is inspired by her. One of my first jobs in Amsterdam was working as a cleaner at the Van Gogh museum, I was very impressed by the art and it helped my art career.
Artist Statement:
In 1999, my daughter Amal was born with one of the most difficult diseases, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). It’s a rare chronic disease where the skin is as weak and fragile as a butterfly’s wing. Blisters and open wounds are formed by the slightest touch. She is in constant pain, all the time. There is no cure for it and we’ve been struggling and fighting this disease every day ever since. My art was born a year later because of the enormous emotional and mental turmoil my wife, my kids and I went through dealing with this disease, as Amal has become the centre of our attention and life ever since. It was a constant struggle to keep going and reaching a safe shore. I had never drawn or painted before, but somehow on her first birthday, I started making these strange drawings. You’ll find that my paintings are very random, but controlled. In every painting, I try to express myself to show the viewer what I’ve created and what I mean. However, most people who have seen my paintings, also saw something different in them. You can see them from many different perspectives, but they all represent finding beauty within chaos and despair. Recently, after many years, I’ve been told that my art style is classified as “expressionism”.
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