Selected Artists – Issue Zero

Outsider Art Magazine is pleased to announce our selections for issue zero. Thank you to everyone who submitted their artwork for issue zero.

Outsider Art Magazine is pleased to announce our selections for issue zero. Thank you to everyone who submitted their artwork for issue zero.

Our cover Artists will be revealed when the issue is released.

In no particular order here is our 20 selected Artists.

Deveron Richard – San Pedro, CA
Jo Moore – Bournemouth, UK
Baek Lee – Idyllwild, CA
Marija Orlovic – Wiesbaden, Germany
Robin Savage – Providence, RI
Jeff Klena – Elyria, OH
Mista Fig – Tau, UK
Marilyn Richeda – South Salem, NY
Fernando Carpaneda – Freeport, NY
Mary Webster – Peterborough, UK
Joyce Thornbug – Ashville, NC
Matt Rosenbaum – Brooklyn, NY
Sabine Blodorn – Broadbeach, Australia
Sally Mandl – Grenville-sur-la-rouge, Canada
Bird Trash – Houston, TX
William Tyler – Toronto, Canada
Brian Hoffman – Newton, MA
Hui-ju Chen – Shantou, China
Robert Gorchov – Philadelphia, PA

Featured Artist – Simon Gower

To me, life is a most randomly beautiful experience. There is also much confusion and chaos. I have always struggled with dependency issues, but I have also been the luckiest man to ever have lived. There is a type of instability and volatility which has brought me all the heaven, and all the hell that one can imagine. It’s never normal, it’s either blissful ecstasy, or harrowing despair in this little experience of mine.

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Simon Gower – Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Instagram

To me, life is a most randomly beautiful experience. There is also much confusion and chaos. I have always struggled with dependency issues, but I have also been the luckiest man to ever have lived. There is a type of instability and volatility which has brought me all the heaven, and all the hell that one can imagine. It’s never normal, it’s either blissful ecstasy, or harrowing despair in this little experience of mine.
Due to these circumstances, I have lived a hedonistic narrative which led me down a dead end road. I crashed at the bottom. With much inner search, psychedelics, meditation, contemplation, and creative therapy, I have come out in good stead after a long and painful cycle, which included many experiences which I cannot share without the fear of being painted as someone insane. It was a process of loss and recovery, and so I have to say that what this body of work has meant to me, is a self exploratory type of healing. I am only now rising back into consciousness after the turmoil. Materially, I am left with nothing, but I am 31 years young, and I have a most beautiful love with a most beautiful human, to whom I owe more than can be expressed.
I am most certainly baffled by this existence, but I must compliment it on its sheer magnificence and majesty. And while healing was the unconscious motivation for the work, I would like to dedicate it to life itself, as a token of my appreciation and gratitude for all it has shown and given me.
One of the most important things which the work has taught me, is a reclassification of success. Rather than the end result being the focus of importance, it is instead the act of creation which I now call the thing of meaning. For me, the act of drawing, the act of writing, this is how I meet with my God. It is in the act of creation where the value lies, not in the end result. It is a falling in love with the process and surrender to the moment, rather than an attachment to outcomes and objects.

Please note that the work is heavy in concept, and ideally, the accompanying concept forms half of the piece. For full works and associated text content, please visit lovecultdesign.com

 

ANUBIS Medium Ink on paper Size A4
ANUBIS
Ink on paper
A4
Family Portrait Medium Ink on Paper Size A4
Family Portrait
Ink on Paper
A4
Courage and Kindness Medium Ink on paper Size A3
Courage and Kindness
Ink on paper
A3
The Love Thing Medium Ink on paper Size A3
The Love Thing
Ink on paper
A3

Featured Artist – Jo Moore

I am a 49 year old womam from London, I have taught myself. I paint what I want how I want. Art therapy for my muddled mind and then I cook tea for the kids and walk the dog and think about stuff.

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Jo Moore – Bournemouth, UK

I am a 49 year old womam from London, I have taught myself. I paint what I want how I want. Art therapy for my muddled mind and then I cook tea for the kids and walk the dog and think about stuff.

4 eyes Medium Mixed media on canvas Size 800mmx300mm
4 Eyes
Mixed media on canvas
800mmx300mm
Birdlegs Medium Mixed media Size 900mmx600
Birdlegs
Mixed media
900mmx600
Lovehand Medium Ink on paper Size A5
Lovehand
Ink on paper
A5
Hatched egg Medium Mixed media Size 300mmx300
Hatched Egg
Mixed media
300mmx300

Featured Artist – Deveron Richard

Deveron Richard is an LA-based artist, primarily self taught and highly skilled in watercolor and pastel. Deveron has been creating work at the ECF Art Centers, a progressive art studio in Los Angeles, for over thirty-three years. His subject matter ranges from fantasy and sci-fi to landscapes and portraits, and always with a distinct attention to the smallest detail and brush stroke. Deveron creates otherworldly characters of hypersexualized animals that live in a color spectra or a battling space universe. With each piece along with a title Deveron includes a narrative, giving the viewer just a glimpse into the microcosms he creates. “I am an art student, always learning something new and practicing my technique. I get my ideas from my imagination. I ask God for a vision, for inspiration. I do my inspiration and I keep at it.” says Deveron about his art practice.

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Deveron Richard – San Pedro, CA
Instagram  #DeveronRichard

Deveron Richard is an LA-based artist, primarily self taught and highly skilled in watercolor and pastel. Deveron has been creating work at the ECF Art Centers, a progressive art studio in Los Angeles, for over thirty-three years. His subject matter ranges from fantasy and sci-fi to landscapes and portraits, and always with a distinct attention to the smallest detail and brush stroke. Deveron creates otherworldly characters of hypersexualized animals that live in a color spectra or a battling space universe. With each piece along with a title Deveron includes a narrative, giving the viewer just a glimpse into the microcosms he creates. “I am an art student, always learning something new and practicing my technique. I get my ideas from my imagination. I ask God for a vision, for inspiration. I do my inspiration and I keep at it.” says Deveron about his art practice.

It's Raining Milk Medium watercolor on paper Size 28.75in X 20.875in
It’s Raining Milk
watercolor on paper
28.75in X 20.875in
Bird of Ice Medium watercolor on paper Size 17in X 22.5in
Bird of Ice
watercolor on paper
17in X 22.5in
The Polar Bears in Aurora Medium watercolor on paper Size 22in X 16.25in
The Polar Bears in Aurora
watercolor on paper
22in X 16.25in
Spectra Knights : Battle for Birdraprime Medium watercolor on paper Size 19in X 25.5in
Spectra Knights : Battle for Birdraprime
watercolor on paper
19in X 25.5in

 

 

Featured Artist – Manana Tsilikishvili

When I was born in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia was a satellite state of the USSR. Communist control often made daily life a challenge and constrained the art world. It discouraged new ideas and pushed artists towards traditional expression. However, I was fortunate enough as a young girl to have a schoolteacher who recognized my talent and encouraged me to express myself in line, form and color.
In order to support myself during young adulthood, I enrolled in the Light Industry Technical College and obtained a degree in textile manufacturing. I used the skills I acquired at the college to open fashion boutique. My ability to use color and form in design made the shop successful. Yet the boutique was not enough to quell my intense desire to paint. I yearned to experience artistic freedom, which America seemed to offer. In 1999, I came to the United States and was tremendously inspired by possibilities for art in this country. I rediscovered my love of fine art.
I found myself surrounded by a free artistic environment, new material, rich literature, incredible libraries, and museums. Using these new resources, I explored new techniques, often times teaching myself. Studying the likes of Jackson Pollock, Amedeo Modigliani, and Willem de Kooning, along with other masters, I began working with acrylics and oils. I honed my techniques and developed an individualistic, contemporary style. My work is now possessed by a spirit of freedom, which lives in a wonderful world of lines, forms, colors and symbolism textured by oils and other mixed media. Each piece of art is an honest and pure expression of various periods of my life; my paintings capture emotions from my heart and soul. Finally, they depict my experience of life, growing up in an repressive society and ending up in America; at times intense and dramatic, my style has also become feminine and uplifting.
Although I continue to develop as an artist, I have settled into my style and found an engaging audience on the East Coast. I have exhibited my works in locations around the tri-state area, including in Philadelphia and New York City. I am constantly searching for new opportunities for collaboration and engaging with new audiences and perspectives. I look forward to working with you.

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Manana Tsilikishvili – Normandy Beach, NJ
Instagram

When I was born in Tbilisi, the Republic of Georgia was a satellite state of the USSR. Communist control often made daily life a challenge and constrained the art world. It discouraged new ideas and pushed artists towards traditional expression. However, I was fortunate enough as a young girl to have a schoolteacher who recognized my talent and encouraged me to express myself in line, form and color.
In order to support myself during young adulthood, I enrolled in the Light Industry Technical College and obtained a degree in textile manufacturing. I used the skills I acquired at the college to open fashion boutique. My ability to use color and form in design made the shop successful. Yet the boutique was not enough to quell my intense desire to paint. I yearned to experience artistic freedom, which America seemed to offer. In 1999, I came to the United States and was tremendously inspired by possibilities for art in this country. I rediscovered my love of fine art.
I found myself surrounded by a free artistic environment, new material, rich literature, incredible libraries, and museums. Using these new resources, I explored new techniques, often times teaching myself. Studying the likes of Jackson Pollock, Amedeo Modigliani, and Willem de Kooning, along with other masters, I began working with acrylics and oils. I honed my techniques and developed an individualistic, contemporary style. My work is now possessed by a spirit of freedom, which lives in a wonderful world of lines, forms, colors and symbolism textured by oils and other mixed media. Each piece of art is an honest and pure expression of various periods of my life; my paintings capture emotions from my heart and soul. Finally, they depict my experience of life, growing up in an repressive society and ending up in America; at times intense and dramatic, my style has also become feminine and uplifting.
Although I continue to develop as an artist, I have settled into my style and found an engaging audience on the East Coast. I have exhibited my works in locations around the tri-state area, including in Philadelphia and New York City. I am constantly searching for new opportunities for collaboration and engaging with new audiences and perspectives. I look forward to working with you.

Dividing Medium Mixed Media Size 36”x 48”x 1,5”
Dividing
Mixed Media
36”x 48”x 1,5”
Revenge Medium Mixed Media Size 36”x 48”x1,5”
Revenge
Mixed Media
36”x 48”x1,5”
Art Statement Medium Mixed Media Size 54”x 42”x1,5
Art Statement
Mixed Media
54”x 42”x1,5
Stop Atack Size 38”x70”
Stop Atack
38”x70”

 

Featured Artist – Jeff Klena

I briefly attended the Cleveland Institute of Art (1992-1993) but found hanging out at the Euclid Tavern and the Cleveland Museum of Art much more educational.
Music And Art have been a constant force in moving my life forward. Although the past is a constant reminder of promises forgotten. I now make good on the little lies that get me through the night. The reinventing of the dream-self on every new morning. The doorway between the conscious self and the subconscious ideal has been left open. What remains of the journey lies in paint. My Style is subjective to the viewers preconceptions. I am a figure artist. The rest is up for interpretation.
The artistic influences on my paintings are quite varied. I am most influenced by the Symbolist. Which turned into the modern Illustration movement. Everyone from Klimt to Schiele from Bacon and Auerbach to Frazetta and Giger. All my idols are dead. It is my time to start a new generation of dreamers.
All my work is for sale. I am sick of being a slave to my alarm clock

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Jeff Klena – Elyria, OH
Instagram

I briefly attended the Cleveland Institute of Art (1992-1993) but found hanging out at the Euclid Tavern and the Cleveland Museum of Art much more educational.
Music And Art have been a constant force in moving my life forward. Although the past is a constant reminder of promises forgotten. I now make good on the little lies that get me through the night. The reinventing of the dream-self on every new morning. The doorway between the conscious self and the subconscious ideal has been left open. What remains of the journey lies in paint. My Style is subjective to the viewers preconceptions. I am a figure artist. The rest is up for interpretation.
The artistic influences on my paintings are quite varied. I am most influenced by the Symbolist. Which turned into the modern Illustration movement. Everyone from Klimt to Schiele from Bacon and Auerbach to Frazetta and Giger. All my idols are dead. It is my time to start a new generation of dreamers.
All my work is for sale. I am sick of being a slave to my alarm clock

Touching the Darkness in Death Medium Latex on Wood Size 23x36
Touching the Darkness in Death
Latex on Wood
23×36
Fertility Goddess Medium Latex on Wood Size 24x36
Fertility Goddess
Latex on Wood
24×36
First Glimpse of Fire Medium Latex on Canvas Size 30x32
First Glimpse of Fire
Latex on Canvas
30×32
Source of Origin Medium Latex on Canvas Size 30x32
Source of Origin
Latex on Canvas
30×32

 

 

Featured Artist – Mista Fig

Considered an ‘outsider artist’, I express through sculpture, exploring my ideas using a variety of media.
Inspiration for my art, comes from dreams, myths, intuition and adventures.
My work is mainly figurative with root influences from what I experience—–the pain and pleasure of life.
I aim to create with passion and freedom, to tell a story through my work, of my life and the life of others.

Each sculpture is individual and an edition of one….

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Mista Fig – Tau, UK
Instagram

Considered an ‘outsider artist’, I express through sculpture, exploring my ideas using a variety of media.
Inspiration for my art, comes from dreams, myths, intuition and adventures.
My work is mainly figurative with root influences from what I experience—–the pain and pleasure of life.
I aim to create with passion and freedom, to tell a story through my work, of my life and the life of others.

Each sculpture is individual and an edition of one….

 

" CELEBRITY # 2 " from the series, ' Girls on Tour ( who haven't yet toured ).....' Medium Mixed Media ------ after creating her shape, I dressed " Celebrity #2 " in layers of mosaic, thinly rolled treated lead, glitter paint, diamante, found objects plus some inspiration..... Size Life Size
” CELEBRITY # 2 ” from the series, ‘ Girls on Tour ( who haven’t yet toured )…..’
Mixed Media —— after creating her shape, I dressed ” Celebrity #2 ” in layers of mosaic, thinly rolled treated lead, glitter paint, diamante, found objects plus some inspiration…..
Life Size
' Learning to Fly ' from the series , " My little people that have come down from the hills....." Medium Mixed Media ------ created from found objects, put together in my ' Frankenstein ' way, then dressed and highly decorated, including thinly rolled treated lead, wax, glow paint, altered objects, plus some inspiration....... Size 42 inches / 107 centimetres tall
‘ Learning to Fly ‘ from the series , ” My little people that have come down from the hills…..”
Mixed Media —— created from found objects, put together in my ‘ Frankenstein ‘ way, then dressed and highly decorated, including thinly rolled treated lead, wax, glow paint, altered objects, plus some inspiration…….
42 inches / 107 centimetres tall
" Sexin' Up Minnie '' from the series, ' My little people that have come down from the hills....' Medium Mixed Media ------ created from found objects, put together in my ' Frankenstein ' way, then dressed and highly decorated, including layers of feathers, paint, altered objects, plus some inspiration....... Size 26 inches / 66 centimetres tall, plus plinth seat
” Sexin’ Up Minnie ” from the series, ‘ My little people that have come down from the hills….’
Mixed Media —— created from found objects, put together in my ‘ Frankenstein ‘ way, then dressed and highly decorated, including layers of feathers, paint, altered objects, plus some inspiration…….
26 inches / 66 centimetres tall, plus plinth seat

Featured Artist – Marilyn Richeda

My creative process is based on working intuitively from feelings, memories and my imagination. I usually work in a series which can lead me into extensive exploration of an idea and form. Form is an essential element in my work. My secondary focus is to develop different types of surfaces that will enhance and support the form. I can’t say enough about color. In many ways, color is the most important part of every piece I make. The dance begins as soon as I start brushing the glazes onto bone dry terra-cotta. The clay draws the slips and glazes in, sometimes making a particular sound; I like that. I layer the slips and glazes until I achieve a result which is emotionally satisfying to me. The use of color is more emotional than logical. Although my figures are pared-down minimalist in outside appearance, I mean for them to have complicated and subtle inner lives. For me, they carry the heavy weight of emotional fragility. They are simultaneously grotesque, beautiful, repulsive and mesmerizing. The figures I create, some creepy and dark, are not to be found on the street, but rather in one’s imagination or dreams creating an alternate universe. My use of wagons, carts, wheels, boats and chairs place the figure in or on an object to transport them to another place.

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Marilyn Richeda – South Salem, NY
Instagram

My creative process is based on working intuitively from feelings, memories and my imagination. I usually work in a series which can lead me into extensive exploration of an idea and form. Form is an essential element in my work. My secondary focus is to develop different types of surfaces that will enhance and support the form. I can’t say enough about color. In many ways, color is the most important part of every piece I make. The dance begins as soon as I start brushing the glazes onto bone dry terra-cotta. The clay draws the slips and glazes in, sometimes making a particular sound; I like that. I layer the slips and glazes until I achieve a result which is emotionally satisfying to me. The use of color is more emotional than logical. Although my figures are pared-down minimalist in outside appearance, I mean for them to have complicated and subtle inner lives. For me, they carry the heavy weight of emotional fragility. They are simultaneously grotesque, beautiful, repulsive and mesmerizing. The figures I create, some creepy and dark, are not to be found on the street, but rather in one’s imagination or dreams creating an alternate universe. My use of wagons, carts, wheels, boats and chairs place the figure in or on an object to transport them to another place.

Gentle Empathy Medium Ceramic Size 7.5"h x 8"w x 4.25"d
Gentle Empathy
Medium
Ceramic
Size
7.5″h x 8″w x 4.25″d
Put Together Medium Ceramic Size 14.25"h x 15.5"w x 4.5"d
Put Together
Medium
Ceramic
Size
14.25″h x 15.5″w x 4.5″d
It's Complicated Medium Ceramic Size 14.5"h x 8.5"w x 11.5"d
It’s Complicated
Medium
Ceramic
Size
14.5″h x 8.5″w x 11.5″d
The Searchers Medium Ceramic Size 17.25"h x 6.5"w x 15.5"d
The Searchers
Medium
Ceramic
Size
17.25″h x 6.5″w x 15.5″d

Featured Artist – Fernando Carpaneda

Fernando Carpaneda is an underground punk artist. He works with clay sculptures and paintings. His main theme is always the human being.His sculptures and paintings capture subjects that reflect the extraordinary side of the human element. Homeless people, punk rockers, pop stars, unknown artists and outcasts are recreated to the minutest detail in his clay sculptures. Parts of the artist’s own clothing are hand tailored into miniature wardrobes. In the style of the 17th century paintings of secular subjects, human hair and modern day relics are incorporated into each piece to reflect a sense of capturing a moment in time. The artist takes his inspiration from the urban element and uses the language of the street along with his own experiences with punk rock and street life. His bold artistic statement as a punk activist is painstakingly expressed through this controversial work. Often sexual in nature, his “In your Face” approach to the acceptance of sexuality and the Punk lifestyle are recreated to provoke and inspire the observer.

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Fernando Carpaneda – Freeport, NY
Instagram

Fernando Carpaneda is an underground punk artist. He works with clay sculptures and paintings. His main theme is always the human being.His sculptures and paintings capture subjects that reflect the extraordinary side of the human element. Homeless people, punk rockers, pop stars, unknown artists and outcasts are recreated to the minutest detail in his clay sculptures. Parts of the artist’s own clothing are hand tailored into miniature wardrobes. In the style of the 17th century paintings of secular subjects, human hair and modern day relics are incorporated into each piece to reflect a sense of capturing a moment in time. The artist takes his inspiration from the urban element and uses the language of the street along with his own experiences with punk rock and street life. His bold artistic statement as a punk activist is painstakingly expressed through this controversial work. Often sexual in nature, his “In your Face” approach to the acceptance of sexuality and the Punk lifestyle are recreated to provoke and inspire the observer.

His voracious engagement in the cause of diversity and punk culture led him to exhibit at Art Basel in Miami, the Tom of Finland Foundation in California, The Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis and The Leslie Lohman Museum in New York to name a few. His works are included in multiple art collections, galleries and museums around the world while also appearing in publications as The Best of Punk Globe Magazine, alongside Debbie Harry, Jamie Oliver(UK SUBS),Sid Vicious,Earl Slick,John Lydon,The Adicts,Glen Matlock,Joe Dallesandro,Andy Warhol,Pauley Perrete also in Treasures Of Gay Art, a book featuring Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Jean Cocteau and many others. In June 18, 2012, some of his works were selected and exhibited at Times Square in New York, during the opening of the exhibition Art Takes Times Square. The works were exhibited in 10m² LED panels covering 23 floors (Nasdaq screens, Thomson and Reuters, Clear Channel Spectacolor, and A2aMedia’s Port Authority) the exhibition was seen by over 1 million people.

Award

Fernando Carpaneda was named as a Juror’s Choice for Visual Art at the 2016 Seattle Erotic Art Festival. “The Rebirth of Punk” sculpture was one of three pieces of art to receive the award.

Mars Bar Medium Acrylic on Canvas Size 5"x6"
Mars Bar
Acrylic on Canvas
5″x6″
Mars Bar Medium Acrylic on Canvas Size 5"x6"
Mars Bar
Acrylic on Canvas
5″x6″
CBGB Medium Acrylic on Canvas Size 20"x 30"
CBGB
Acrylic on Canvas
20″x 30″
KEN Medium Acrylic on Canvas Size 20"x24"
KEN
Acrylic on Canvas
20″x24″

 

Featured Artist – Joyce Thornburg

RAW AND INTUITIVE
I am a compulsive artist…I paint everyday because I have to!

My images are raw and intuitive. Colors harmonize in unexpected ways and exuberance often collides with angst.

Faces predominate my work, many in frontal gazes that meets the viewer head -on; faces as maps that reveal places we’ve been…or may be going.

In the words of Zorba the Greek—

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Joyce Thornburg – Asheville, NC
Instagram

RAW AND INTUITIVE
I am a compulsive artist…I paint everyday because I have to!

My images are raw and intuitive. Colors harmonize in unexpected ways and exuberance often collides with angst.

Faces predominate my work, many in frontal gazes that meets the viewer head -on; faces as maps that reveal places we’ve been…or may be going.

In the words of Zorba the Greek—

I embrace everything…the full catastrophe, speaking to the human condition of joy and triumph, suffering and celebration.

ARTIST BIO
Working studio/gallery at Wedge Studios in The River Arts district Asheville, N.C. 2009-current

Member of the Circle Foundation for the Arts, London.

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
American Folk Art Gallery/ Asheville 2007-2009

Atelier Gallery /Asheville 2007-2010

Attic Gallery /Vicksburg, MS 2012 to current

Beverly Kaye online gallery/ 2015

Cherry Bounce/American Politics / William King Museum Abingdon, VA., September 2016-January 2017

Saatchi Art / Urban Edge, New Street Art collection 2016

MUSEUM AFFILIATIONS/COLLECTIONS:
Victor Keane collection at the Bethany Mission Gallery/ Philadelphia, PA.

Title Dance of Impermanence Medium Mixed Media on panel Size 36" x 48"

Dance of Impermanence
Mixed Media on panel
36″ x 48″
Title Sad Clown Medium Acrylic on Strand Board Size 18" x 24"

Sad Clown
Acrylic on Strand Board
18″ x 24″
Title Homage Medium Acrylic on Canvas Size 30" x 31"

Homage
Acrylic on Canvas
30″ x 31″
Title Jolly Good Fella Medium Mixed Media on Panel Size 12" x 12

Jolly Good Fella
Mixed Media on Panel
12″ x 12