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
She works between Rome and Cluj-Napoca. “What catches my attention is the relationship that exists between everyday reality and dystopian reality, and how subtle the differences are between them. Restlessness, magic and melancholy live in my artwork.”
Born in 1986.
She works between Rome and Cluj-Napoca. “What catches my attention is the relationship that exists between everyday reality and dystopian reality, and how subtle the differences are between them. Restlessness, magic and melancholy live in my artwork.”
Interference | digital photo collage & digital painting on hahnemühle (monotype) | 40 X 40 cmBye | digital photo collage & digital painting on hahnemuhle (monotype) | 30 X 30 cmBlack Poppies | digital photo collage & digital painting on hahnemühle (monotype) | 100 X 100 cmOnce Upon A Time There Was Grunge | digital photo collage & digital painting on hahnemühle (monotype) | 40 X 40 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 inchesBattersea Power!!! | Digital Smartphone Photography PhoneArt | 59.4 X 84.1 cms / 23.3/8 X 33.1/8 inchesThe Death of Dante | Acrylic on Box Canvas | 58.42 X 58.42 cms / 23 X 23 inchesVainGlorious | Acrylic On Box Canvas | 58.42 X 58.42 cms / 23 X 23 inches
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The Magic Wand | acrylic and cotton on canvas | 5 by 6 feetMare Morning Mare Mourning it’s a poor Castration | acrylic and cotton on canvas | 5 by 6 feetConspiracy Garden, Fools Gold. | Acrylic on cotton on canvas | 5 by 7feetThe Perreaoult | Acrylic mixed media goIdleaf | 24 by 30
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 inSelf Portrait in the Age of Coronavirus | Pen and Ink drawing | 11 in by 8 inDark Soul | Pen and Ink drawing | 11 in by 8 inA Really Bad Trip | Pen and Ink drawing | 11in by 8 in
Issue Six is now available digitally for free or $25 for a printed version.
Artists in issue six
Robert Gorchov *Cover Artist
Robert Frankel
Kevin Kemp
Dio D’Brutto
Valentina Fedoseeva
Ernest Compta
Matthew Clarke
RINA Taytu
Nicklas Farrantello
Sven Froekjaer-Jensen
Mitchell Pluto
Richard Reynolds
Gale Rothstein
Thelma Van Rensburg
Jennifer Levine
Susan Spangenberg
Emmanuel Laveau
Samia Farah
Selkie Quan
Bux Dhyne
Bill Skrips
Poete Maudit
Christy Carter
BILL _L47
Sophie Jacobs
Oshi Artist
Michael Chomick
David Sheskin
William Francis
Richard Green
Hermine Harman
Recently, at a traveling carnival, I came across one of those old coin-operated fortune-telling machines. You put a quarter in the slot, a figure comes to life, waves its “hand” over a glass ball, and out pops a scroll of paper with your future written on it. I was struck by the device’s mannequin, wrapped in colorful, patterned, silks and the device’s antique carved wood cabinet, with brass detailing. I was also intrigued by the idea that this mechanical device with gears and cogs was somehow supposed to be able to tell me my future. How could a cold machine possibly know my life’s destiny? Of course, it can’t. Like the fortune cookie or the Magic 8 Ball, these things are meant solely for entertainment.
Yet, they still hold power over us. For some people, a Ouija board or a deck of tarot cards can be the couriers of life-changing information. These objects are believed to possess mystifying and arcane knowledge, even though, in reality, they are just novelty consumer products. The clerk at the magic store orders a gross of tarot cards whenever the stock is low and a new Ouija board can be purchased in the board game section of your local toy store, next to Chutes and Ladders.
The thing that makes these items magical can be found in their construct…not in just how they are made or their graphic design, but in their entire idea. Usually, the stories around these items are just as important as the items themselves; and the contexts in which they are used play a massive part in their power.
I began to wonder if there are other objects that somehow provide knowledge through purely mechanical means. Old analog calculators leaped to mind, the slide ruler, the abacus, and the mechanical adding machine with its crank handle. These devices also convey complicated ideas through the simple arrangement of moving parts. And their power is not questioned. All of ancient China was controlled using sliding beads on an abacus.
Like the fortune-telling machine at the fair, these tools of science were often also beautiful, delicately carved devices with inlaid brass and ivory. Although these machines were based on math, for some, they too possess mystifying and arcane knowledge. They have their own mysticism, their own sacred places of use, and their own histories and lore. In the hands of mystics at NASA, the slide ruler took us to the moon.
So here I present a new paradigm. What if science made devices that could calculate more than just numbers? What if engineers and mathematicians could come up with formulas and conversion wheels that could tell us who to love or the nature of the soul? What might it look like if all the mysteries of the world could be quantified, laid out in charts, then formatted into easy-to-use slide wheels? What if there was a company that had been creating just such devices for decades? This collection is a celebration of that idea
Whom Should You Trust | mixed | 16″ x 16″ x .75″What They Made You Forget | mixed | 20″ x 30″ x 1″How Many Cat Souls Equals One Dog Soul | mixed | 30″ x 20.75″ x 1″Is Your Relative Possessed | mixed | 20″ x 23″ x 1″
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