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
(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.)
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
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″dBrother Von Stauffenberg / no.1219 | Acrylic on Canvas | 63″h x 29″wHorsemanship / no.2054 | Sculpture – Iron, Found Objects | 68″h x 30″w x 23″dBlue Moon / no.1225 | Acrylic on Canvas | 70″h x 52″w
As a classic introvert, the Pandemic allowed me to live a life I had only dreamt of. No appointments, no lunches, no parties. Even phone calls dried up.
This collection began in January 2021 as a form of pandemic diary. I was able to focus on the small moments that make up a day. My dog barking, a charming house, a knotty tree. As the world opens I am committed to keeping my eyes on “the small picture”.
Painting these moments force me, and I hope the viewer, to “realize life while we live it” (to quote Thorton Wilder).
The scenes are rendered not as they are, but as they appear in my mind with flattened shapes, distorted perspectives, romanticized palettes recognizable from Outsider and Pop Art.
The work is primarily oil painting with elements from past series to clarify my voice. This includes cardboard layers, polymer objects, thread and glitter to infuse the scenes with my humor, humanity and warped look at the world.
Squirrel | Oil, acrylic, cardboard, embroidery thread, polymer clay on wood panel | 14″ x 18″ with hand embellished frameBedtime | Oil, acrylic, cardboard, embroidery thread, polymer clay, glitter on wood panel | 14″ x 14″ with hand painted frameGuard Dog | Oil, acrylic, cardboard, polymer clay, embroidery thread on wood panel | 13″ x 16″ with hand painted frameWalking Fiona | Oil, acrylic, cardboard, pumice medium on wood panel | 16″ x 20″ unframed
My work is loosely based on the figure, sometimes morphing into quirky and other worldly beings. 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 ceramic figures inhabit boats, circular and square stands, clay or wooden wagons with wheels, figures sitting on animals or chairs and recently figures appear in portraits.
My work is loosely based on the figure, sometimes morphing into quirky and other worldly beings. 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 ceramic figures inhabit boats, circular and square stands, clay or wooden wagons with wheels, figures sitting on animals or chairs and recently figures appear in portraits.
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.
Wondering how to live in the world with others … this is my way of speaking through my art, my way of being in the world.
Girl Bandit | Ceramic/porcelain | 4.5″h x 3.5″w x .5″dFlower Bandit | Ceramic/earthenware | 4.5″h x 3.5″w x .25″dHorse with Rider | Ceramic/earthenware | 3.5″h x 4.5″w x .5″dBlue Dress | Ceramic/earthenwaren |4.5″h x 3.5″w x .5″d
Martin Coyle is and Outsider Artist with no formal art education or training, he has been painting out of his home studio located in a converted barn behind his house for the last 15 years here in the beautiful city of Dover N.H
Martin Coyle is originally from Long Island New York and is related to late NYC expressionist painter Otto Mjaanes.
Coyle is married to his beautiful wife Rachel and they have a 19-year-old daughter Solei
Statement by the artist
As an outsider artist I don’t go into creating my paintings with an intention or direction, I let the artwork create itself. I consider myself an expressionist and create both figurative and nonfigurative artwork .
I have always been an artist but didn’t get serious with my art until 2012, In 2013 I had my first group exhibition art show at 100 market gallery in Portsmouth N.H and won the award for honorable mention.
Since then, I have been in group art shows in New Jersey and twice in California.
I work in many different mediums and enjoy both painting and drawing.
Deep Elm | mixed media | 20×24 inchesSelf Reflection mixed media | 20×24 inchesBarn Street | mixed media | 24 x 36 inchesSoft Parade | mixed media | 24 x20 inches
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