Tag: art from the outside

Featured Artist – John McCabe

I am an artist and musician based in Southern, California. The art that I make is directly tied to what music I am recording at the time. Over the last several years I have written, recorded and released 2 EP’s; in the early phases of the recording process for my first record, I realized that one of the magical things that I used to love about buying music was the art work. It was a way to jointly study the music and what paintings, drawings, photographs, lyrics and liner notes accompanied the physical songs.

Featured Artist

John McCabe – Laguna Niguel, CA
Instagram

I am an artist and musician based in Southern, California. The art that I make is directly tied to what music I am recording at the time. Over the last several years I have written, recorded and released 2 EP’s; in the early phases of the recording process for my first record, I realized that one of the magical things that I used to love about buying music was the art work. It was a way to jointly study the music and what paintings, drawings, photographs, lyrics and liner notes accompanied the physical songs.

In the digital domain, my EPs and albums get released and ‘pushed out’ to a cold, vast sea of platforms, playlists, blogs, etc., typically, with one tiny picture (cover art) associated with the artist’s eight or 10 songs. So, I tried to recreate the past experience and release my music with 1 painting per song; that way, the listener could explore the cover art work – as well as the individual song pieces.

In between music recording projects, I continue to make art. They are usually made when I am going through the song writing process and home studio demo recording for new material for the next album. The four that I have selected for this submission fall into that wedge. In between. All are acrylic and ink pen on canvas or canvas board.

What About (Window Panes) Medium Acrylic on Canvas Size 20"x16"

What About (Window Panes)
Medium
Acrylic on Canvas
Size
20″x16″
Giraffe & Ten Gallon Medium Acrylic, Pen on Canvas Board Size 16"x20"

Giraffe & Ten Gallon
Medium
Acrylic, Pen on Canvas Board
Size
16″x20″
Purple Lamp Shades (Black Flag T-Shirt) Medium Acrylic, Pen on Canvas Board Size 16"x20"

Purple Lamp Shades (Black Flag T-Shirt)
Medium
Acrylic, Pen on Canvas Board
Size
16″x20″
Hank & Polka Dot Pig Medium Acrylic, Pen on Canvas Board Size 16"x20"

Hank & Polka Dot Pig
Medium
Acrylic, Pen on Canvas Board
Size
16″x20″

Featured Artist – Orna Geva

Featured Artist – Orna Geva

Featured Artist

Orna Geva – Herzliya, Israel
Instagram

Offline Medium acrylic on canvas Size 30/40 cm

Offline
acrylic on canvas
30/40 cm
Low Battery Medium acrylic on canvas Size 30/40 cm

Low Battery
acrylic on canvas
30/40 cm
ESC Medium acrylic on canvas Size 30/40 cm

ESC
acrylic on canvas
30/40 cm
Connect Medium acrylic on canvas Size 30/40 cm

Connect
acrylic on canvas
30/40 cm

Featured Artist – Justin Aerni

I’ve been making and selling my art professionally for over a decade. I’ve had the opportunity to dabble in the creation of film making, producing & directing music videos and album art for King Gordy, MC V1RUS, Ebbo Kraan, Vazytouille, Placenta Recordings & New Era Hippie. To Date, I’ve published ten books ranging from poetry, Graphic Novels to choose your own adventure. I run a little indie publishing company called PEPTFIM LLC. which stands for “People Eat People The Future Is Murder.” Lately, I’ve really enjoyed recording & Producing my own experimental music and curating art shows.

Featured Artist

Justin Aerni – Vancouver, WA
Instagram

I’ve been making and selling my art professionally for over a decade. I’ve had the opportunity to dabble in the creation of film making, producing & directing music videos and album art for King Gordy, MC V1RUS, Ebbo Kraan, Vazytouille, Placenta Recordings & New Era Hippie. To Date, I’ve published ten books ranging from poetry, Graphic Novels to choose your own adventure. I run a little indie publishing company called PEPTFIM LLC. which stands for “People Eat People The Future Is Murder.” Lately, I’ve really enjoyed recording & Producing my own experimental music and curating art shows.

justinaerni@gmail.com
(503)453-3596

Marshmallow Face Medium Acrylic resin on altered marshmallow as a high relief wass sculture. Size 18.5" x 16.5"

Marshmallow Face
Acrylic resin on altered marshmallow as a high relief wass sculpture
18.5″ x 16.5″
CASPER1 Medium Acrylics On Card-stock Paper. Size 44" x 34"

CASPER1
Acrylics On Card-stock Paper
44″ x 34″
White Devil Am I Medium Acrylics, Pen & Ink on Altered Acid Free Paper. Size 8.5" x 11"

White Devil Am I
Acrylics, Pen & Ink on Altered Acid Free Paper
8.5″ x 11″
Beautiful All This Beauty At The Moment Of Destruction Medium Acrylics on Card-stock Paper. Size 55" x 42"

Beautiful All This Beauty At The Moment Of Destruction
Acrylics on Card-stock Paper
55″ x 42″

Featured Artist – B. Lucy Stevens

B. Lucy Stevens – Providence, RI
Instagram

B. Lucy Stevens is an internationally recognized, self-taught artist living in Providence, Rhode Island. Lucy paints intuitively, her work is vibrant and expressionistic, daily life imagined in a brilliant cacophony of color and pattern. She is inspired by primitive and outsider art and her far-flung travels, from South America, to Indonesia to the South of France, where she lived for a year on a flower farm.

Lucy leads art workshops for children in underserved communities and for adults with developmental disabilities, and she is hugely inspired by their art as well. Her work has been featured in galleries and shows throughout the U.S. as well as in France and the U.K.

My paintings are everything I think and feel and witness, everything I find funny and sad and absurd. They are my offering of myself to the world.

Bali Dreaming Medium acrylic, collage, oil pastel on canvas Size 30x40

Bali Dreaming
acrylic, collage, oil pastel on canvas
30×40
Checkered Dress Lady Medium acrylic, collage, oil pastel on canvas Size 30x40

Checkered Dress Lady
acrylic, collage, oil pastel on canvas
30×40
Bus Stop Medium acrylic, collage, oil pastel Size 30x40

Bus Stop
acrylic, collage, oil pastel
30×40
Girl And Devil Medium acrylic, oil pastel on canvas Size 24x36

Girl and Devil
acrylic, oil pastel on canvas
24×36

Featured Artist – Robert Frankel

I LIKE TO NOTICE THINGS: patterns of cracks on the street, colors of sprinkles scattered across the white icing on a doughnut, the texture of peeling bark. I try to use my brush to capture the tension between patterns, colors, and textures. If I am successful, those who view my work will feel the same joy I feel when creating it.

Featured Artist

Robert Frankel – Wilmette, IL

I LIKE TO NOTICE THINGS: patterns of cracks on the street, colors of sprinkles scattered across the white icing on a doughnut, the texture of peeling bark. I try to use my brush to capture the tension between patterns, colors, and textures. If I am successful, those who view my work will feel the same joy I feel when creating it.

Geo 11 Medium Acrylic on canvas Size 40 x 30 x 1.5
Geo 11
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 x 1.5
Geo 10 Medium Acrylic on canvas Size 36 x 24 x 1
Geo 10
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 24 x 1
Geo 20 Medium Acrylic on canvas Size 40 x 30 x 1.5
Geo 20
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 x 1.5
Geo 22 Medium Acrylic on canvas Size 40 x 30 x 1.5
Geo 22
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 x 1.5

Featured Artist – Cory Graham

In rural Appalachia, where tradition reigns supreme, an emerging art and music scene has dared to challenge the outside notions of the region. Steeped in history, awash in natural beauty and with a culture rarely visible outside of the hills, this oft-forgotten region of America is carving out its place among the most culturally relevant to the 21st century. Among those seeking to change perspectives and bring new eyes to the rolling hills is Cory Graham. With no formal training, and only a passion to break down walls surrounding his community, Graham seeks to share views and moments not typically associated with rural America. Deeply political, often angry, and with a focus on progress at all costs, Cory Graham’s work shouts with the voices of forgotten Americans who demand to be heard.  

Featured Artist

Cory Graham – Stanton, KY
Instagram

In rural Appalachia, where tradition reigns supreme, an emerging art and music scene has dared to challenge the outside notions of the region. Steeped in history, awash in natural beauty and with a culture rarely visible outside of the hills, this oft-forgotten region of America is carving out its place among the most culturally relevant to the 21st century. Among those seeking to change perspectives and bring new eyes to the rolling hills is Cory Graham. With no formal training, and only a passion to break down walls surrounding his community, Graham seeks to share views and moments not typically associated with rural America. Deeply political, often angry, and with a focus on progress at all costs, Cory Graham’s work shouts with the voices of forgotten Americans who demand to be heard.

Silence Medium Oil on Canvas Size 18 X 24

Silence
Oil on Canvas
18 X 24
Rapture Medium Photography Size 11 X 14

Rapture
Photography
11 X 14
Collapse Medium Mixed Media Size 24 X 36

Collapse
Mixed Media
24 X 36
Chechnya Medium Digital Size 18 X 24

Chechnya
Digital
18 X 24

Outsider Art Magazine – Issue zero

Outside art magazine issue zero

Issue zero is here! Digital version is available for free and can be downloaded. Print version will be available on Feb 3, 2019.

http://issuu.com/artistportfoliomagazine/docs/oam_zero_b?e=2382761/68149497
issue zero
Outsider Art Magazine Issue Zero
FRONT COVER
Fernando Carpaneda – Freeport, NY
Outsider Art Magazine Issue Zero
Outsider Art Magazine Issue Zero
BACK COVER
Joyce Thornburg – Asheville, NC
Outsider Art Magazine Issue Zero

 

Featured Artist – Sue Moerder

I grew up in an Art home with a Photographer Father, an Elementary School Art Teacher Mother, and Artistic Sister and Brother. Art was always a huge part of my life so going to the Art school where my parents met was probably meant to be. I studied Illustration at Philadelphia College of Art (when it was called that) and then got side tracked in Advertising when I graduated.

Outsider Art Magazine

Featured Artist

Sue Moerder – Hammonton, NJ
Instagram

I grew up in an Art home with a Photographer Father, an Elementary School Art Teacher Mother, and Artistic Sister and Brother. Art was always a huge part of my life so going to the Art school where my parents met was probably meant to be. I studied Illustration at Philadelphia College of Art (when it was called that) and then got side tracked in Advertising when I graduated.

While I was in college and a few years after I exhibited my Soft-Sculpture in Galleries in Phila, New York, New Jersey, and Baltimore. Was published in the books “Outstanding American Illustrators” and “3-Dimensional Illustration” and magazines “Print Magazine” and “Baltimore Magazine”.

A weird sequence of events landed me in Tattooing for the past 16 years, with my own Tattoo Shop/Art Playground for last 7 of them.
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I love Tattooing but the Sculptor in me couldn’t be denied and I started sculpting again with skulls – I love taking skulls and assembling them with manmade objects that are old and discarded, but still beautiful in their own way. It’s like putting together a puzzle of shapes and textures – and giving new life to the dead and discarded.
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I’ve been told what to do with my talents most of my life, and it has definitely influenced my art – this is my own personal artistic voice – my sanity – my passion.

Still Born (Collaboration w/ Mari Bennett - the Mummy Baby) Medium Mixed Media Size 24"x32"x12"
Still Born (Collaboration w/ Mari Bennett – the Mummy Baby)
Mixed Media
24″x32″x12″

Fallen Angel Medium Mixed Media Size 68"x24"x24"
Fallen Angel
Mixed Media
68″x24″x24″

Bare Back Medium Mixed Media Size 28"x28"x11"
Bare Back
Mixed Media
28″x28″x11″

Mermaid Floor Lamp Medium Mixed Media Size 67"x12"x15"
Mermaid Floor Lamp
Mixed Media
67″x12″x15″

 

 

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….

Outsider Art Magazine

Featured Artist

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 – Jay Thomas II

Born and raised in New York City, Jay’s early art creations were greatly influenced by comic book artists such as John Romita, Steve Ditko, and Jim Steranko. During the late 70’s and early 80’s, Jay tried unsuccessfully to join the artistic ranks of both Marvel and DC comics. By 1982, he had become discouraged with the comic book style art that he had been doing, and proceeded to drastically change his style of art. This was the year that he plunged headlong into Pen & Ink Pointillism. Over the next few years, Jay was able to display his art in shows all throughout NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut, and became a member of various art groups such as: The Huntington Township Art League, The Long Island Black Artist Association, and The Harlem StreetGallery. Jay has since abandoned the Pen & Ink Pointillism style (Too costly and time consuming) and now focuses on creating art utilizing Colored Pencils and Ink. He currently resides in Elkridge, MD. with his two daughters, Taja and Kassandria.

Outsider Art Magazine

Featured Artist

Jay Thomas II – Elkridge, MD
Instagram

Born and raised in New York City, Jay’s early art creations were greatly influenced by comic book artists such as John Romita, Steve Ditko, and Jim Steranko. During the late 70’s and early 80’s, Jay tried unsuccessfully to join the artistic ranks of both Marvel and DC comics. By 1982, he had become discouraged with the comic book style art that he had been doing, and proceeded to drastically change his style of art. This was the year that he plunged headlong into Pen & Ink Pointillism. Over the next few years, Jay was able to display his art in shows all throughout NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut, and became a member of various art groups such as: The Huntington Township Art League, The Long Island Black Artist Association, and The Harlem StreetGallery. Jay has since abandoned the Pen & Ink Pointillism style (Too costly and time consuming) and now focuses on creating art utilizing Colored Pencils and Ink. He currently resides in Elkridge, MD. with his two daughters, Taja and Kassandria.

Title "See" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 14x17
Title
“See”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
14×17

Title "Gestating Opinion Fountain" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 16x20
Title
“Gestating Opinion Fountain”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
16×20

Title "Critters In The Sky" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 16x20
Title
“Critters In The Sky”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
16×20

Title "Fractured Fragments" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 16x20
Title
“Fractured Fragments”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
16×20