Featured Artist | Robert Gorchov

I’m a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for four decades. I’m interested in the process that creates a painting. Although it involves imagination, this process is affected by chance, so that when I begin a picture I have only a half-formed image of what the finished painting might look like. The completed piece only slightly resembles the image that I had in mind when I began it. I think of this as improvisation. Over the years that I’ve been painting, I’ve learned to trust the brush and the materials – to let them take the lead – and not to think too much about how it will end up . . . until I get to that end.

This is part of what makes painting interesting for me.

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Robert Gorchov | Philadelphia, PA

I’m a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for four decades. I’m interested in the process that creates a painting. Although it involves imagination, this process is affected by chance, so that when I begin a picture I have only a half-formed image of what the finished painting might look like. The completed piece only slightly resembles the image that I had in mind when I began it. I think of this as improvisation. Over the years that I’ve been painting, I’ve learned to trust the brush and the materials – to let them take the lead – and not to think too much about how it will end up . . . until I get to that end.

This is part of what makes painting interesting for me.

 

Featured Artist | Joyce Thornbug

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.

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Joyce Thornbug | Asheville, NC
@joycehthornburg

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.

Party in My Head | Mixed media on repurposed wood | 40" x 38"
Party in My Head | Mixed media on repurposed wood | 40″ x 38″

Gumby | Mixed media on panel | 11.25" x 11.5"
Gumby | Mixed media on panel | 11.25″ x 11.5″

A Day at the Beach | Mixed media on panel | 12" x 12"
A Day at the Beach | Mixed media on panel | 12″ x 12″

The New Normal | Mixed media on panel | 12" x 12"
The New Normal | Mixed media on panel | 12″ x 12″

 

Featured Artist | Xavier Yarto

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Xavier Yarto | El Cajon, CA
@xavier_Yarto

A Mexican painter who has managed to put in purely abstract work a very unique through the creation of particular colors that give great strength and impact to your work touch.

The author seeks to bring a point beyond abstract art by combining this technique with a job in high relief of pre-Hispanic culture, which he turned in its theme transforms in concept and reinforced with a new set of colors that the artist creates otherwise to highlight the meaning of each icon used in his work.

Artist ambassador in Tintoretto pennelli, Italy

Giorgio Vasari award winner 2019

Global art award nomination 2017 &18

Award winner images of the world, Bangkok, Thailand. 2019

After presenting several important and renowned places worldwide including Mexico, the U.S, Netherlands, Spain, England, Austria, Belgium, France (Louvre Museum in Paris), Italy (Palazzo della Cancelleria di Roma, Palazzo della Cancelleria Vaticana, Museo Villa Pisani di Venice) Denmark, Sweden, South Korea, Bangkok, Thailand.

No doubt his work hits again, because it not only offers the viewer the quality of an abstract work but takes the enigmatic world of pre-Columbian art . A job as its author calls it, ” a recreation of the Hispanic culture with a modern language.”

So Xavier Yarto contributes to art works full of color, strength and content. An artist who searches every new best to previous work.

 The Parisian girl of the long hear | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

The Parisian girl of the long hear | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

 The pretty girl with the pigtails and the cat named Keku | Acrylic on paper | 50 x 70 cm

The pretty girl with the pigtails and the cat named Keku | Acrylic on paper | 50 x 70 cm

 The woman with the beautiful curls Acrylic on paper | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

The woman with the beautiful curls Acrylic on paper | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

 The man with the long mustache and the black cat | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

The man with the long mustache and the black cat | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

Featured Artist | Hannah Bouchard

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Hannah Bouchard | Carlstadt, NJ
@Hbouchard_art

When registering for her first semester of college, Hannah discovered that Intro to Photography was full. She had to fulfill an art requirement to graduate, and painting was the next best thing.

Over the next 3 years at Drew University, Hannah would go on to take classes in painting and drawing, beginning the journey of discovering themes and motifs that are both beautiful and meaningful to her.

At the same time, she was struggling with the mental and physical symptoms of anxiety, and began attending weekly therapy, and later starting medication. It was through these decisions and healing processes that she realized she wanted to paint about women and mental health, but not in the way one might assume.

She became fascinated with the nuanced topics of mental health. Setting boundaries, loving oneself, learning to accept imperfection while simultaneously appreciating progress. Through all of this, Hannah feels more impassioned than ever to create, both for herself and the incredible women that may connect with these themes.

Artist statement: The things that cause us shame tend to teach us the most. By trying to make the frightening, beautiful, I’m not taking away the fact that issues of mental health are painful, but rather trying to empower these feelings and show how much they can transform us. These experiences transform me as much as they do my paintings.

Through my therapy sessions and other conversations with powerful women, I am given endless ideas that express how complicated yet beautiful the human experience is, especially for those who undergo both direct and subtle discrimination far too often. Not only do my friends model for the pieces, but they often inspire the concepts as well.

By using both rendered and abstract elements, I am working to create multiple layers that on one hand read as interior spaces, but can also be broken up into many planes. This is essential to advance the narrative that these are invented spaces, and sometimes break down and begin again. With figures that are typically more rendered in mystical places, I use both oil and acrylic to play with how far back the eye can go.

My work is meant to be a microphone for the experiences I see and feel. I think that using art as a channel for these voices is the best possible reason to be an artist.

Women Ruminate 1 | Oil and acrylic canvas | 64x92 inz
Women Ruminate 1 | Oil and acrylic canvas | 64×92 in

Don’t Worry About It. Never Would when I’m Here | Oil on canvas | 42x50 in.
Don’t Worry About It. Never Would when I’m Here | Oil on canvas | 42×50 in.

When I’ve Got the Whole World in Front of Me | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 44x66 in.
When I’ve Got the Whole World in Front of Me | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 44×66 in.

Do You Want Something to Change? | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 76x108 in.
Do You Want Something to Change? | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 76×108 in.

Featured Artist | Robert Frankel

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Robert Frankel | Wilmette, IL
@robertfrankelart

Since I was a kid I kept myself busy carving sticks into mini-sculptures, doodling during class, and drawing figures on the sidewalk with chalk. Having never received any formal art training, I have managed to teach myself the basics of painting and wood sculpture.

I have exhibited in a number of Galleries that include SITE Gallery, 440 Gallery, and Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City, Galleria Pall Mall in London, and Chie Gallery in Milan Italy. I was one of 20 finalists in 2019 as part of the “Art Takes Manhattan Competition.” My goal is to make the world a happier place through art.

Portrait Painting #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 16 x 20 x 1
Portrait Painting #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 16 x 20 x 1

Farbe ist Alles #15 | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5
Farbe ist Alles #15 | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5

Farbe ist Alles #5 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
Farbe ist Alles #5 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5

Urban Art #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
Urban Art #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5

Featured Artist | Arne Søvik Larsen

I am an autodidact photographer/artist from Norway. Born in 1961.

Work, lives in Os, Norway and Karby, Denmark.

All my works are in the square format.

I can find a motif in almost anything. I see myself more as an artist than a photographer.

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Arne Søvik Larsen | Os, Norway
@arnesoviklarsen

I am an autodidact photographer/artist from Norway. Born in 1961.

Work, lives in Os, Norway and Karby, Denmark.

All my works are in the square format.

I can find a motif in almost anything. I see myself more as an artist than a photographer. The artwork always starts with an ordinary photography/portrait. I find interest in achitecture, furnitures, cars and other design. I am an eager reader of all sorts of magazines regarding these things. One of my absolute favourite photographers is my fellow countryman Knut Bry. He has been a big inspiration for me. From around 1985 I was competing in various competitions around the world, and I won a lot of prizes and awards. The A.F.I.A.P. award from FIAP (Federation Internationale de l’art Photographique) I received in 1990.

After the digital revolution around 2000, I lost interest for several years, but now it’s back for full. I take a lot of pictures every day. I use my iPhone X.

I am on Instagram: #arnesoviklarsen

Bring me a doctor, I have some holes in my head | Photo | 90cm x 90cm
Bring me a doctor, I have some holes in my head | Photo | 90cm x 90cm

The Halhjem Girls Clockwise Ballet Ensemble | Photo | 90cm x 90cm
The Halhjem Girls Clockwise Ballet Ensemble | Photo | 90cm x 90cm

Number 45 and his stunning slovenian wife | Photo | 90cm x 90cm
Number 45 and his stunning slovenian wife | Photo | 90cm x 90cm

Cover your eyes so you can see what I can see | Photo | 90cm x 90cm
Cover your eyes so you can see what I can see | Photo | 90cm x 90cm

FROM | Outsider Art Magazine | Issue Four … Is Here!!!

Artists in Issue Four (in no particular order)

Congrats to all the Artists who made it into issue four and thank you to everyone who submitted art for consideration. We had a name change, but we still have the same great art.

Check back in about a week or so for a new call for art.

And a big thank you to our cover Artist:

Anthony Collins | Bennington, VT
anthonycollinsvt.com
@anthony_collins_art

 


Amy Brereton

Alex Bennett

Michael Hemphill

Kathy Crabbe

Anthony Collins

MRSN.

Ridgely Johnson

Katherine Ramirez

Pedro Troncoso

Bill Skrips

Hannah Bouchard

Aasin A. Thomas

J.V. Foerster

Meira Goodfriend

Clinton Marstall

Thomas Riesner

Robert Gorchov

Daniel Marin

Jennifer Levine

Jennifer Anne Moses

Greg Szostakiwskyj

Veronique Ivanović

Alena Molozanov

Mj Tom of LosOtros

Featured Artist | Veronique Ivanović

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Veronique Ivanović | Atlanta, GA
@vivanovic2

Veronique Ivanović, K75 is a citizen of the world who started creating art at a young age. She was born and lived in Paris/France, London/Great Britain, then moved the United States.

She has been a professor/interpreter and volunteer of French language in New York City, and Atlanta, where she resides. Discovering and taking a deep appreciation for the surrealist movement, Veronique Ivanović K75 abstract art is inspired by geometric structures with experimentation of both subtle and bold integration of lines and colors.

Veronique Ivanović K75 has been working on found and recycled materials for a long time, favoring acrylics paint and collage.

For her, giving discarded things a second chance will help ameliorate the sustainability issues humanity has bequeathed itself. And, also allowing these otherwise discarded things another likelihood.

I was told by professional artists and, gallery owners that an artist should not be all over the place with her/his body of work, because she/he looses her/his audience.

It is very difficult for me to do just that, as I have a Ying/Yang personality type.

Because of difficult times in my life picking up a pencil, a brush, and my camera helped me translate feelings and emotions; captured things that I see and, one might not see, or be trying not to see!

I create, take pictures of what my instant awareness dictates me at that very moment, an intricate, mix of geometrical forms and unusual colors, a bug resting on a person, a graffiti in an abandoned building, or a person lost in her/his thought. This sometimes, drives me to work in series.

I am always fascinated by the dichotomy of the world! Hazy heat and reflections; lights being jealous of the shadows, strong colors against a cloudless sky, chaos and serenity. I like the architectural, the body of human nature, the landscapes that can be found in cities, people and nature alike. I have found myself attracted by multicultural and, multi societal consciousness.

My work, tender, eloquent, provocative and painful at times mirrors my “many lives” and my many foreign travels, as well as my view on cultural, social, and political issues.

Take the time to see me through.

I was told by professional artists and, gallery owners that an artist should not be all over the place with her/his body of work, because she/he looses her/his audience.

It is very difficult for me to do just that, as I have a Ying/Yang personality type.

Because of difficult times in my life picking up a pencil, a brush, and my camera helped me translate feelings and emotions; captured things that I see and, one might not see, or be trying not to see!

I create, take pictures of what my instant awareness dictates me at that very moment, an intricate, mix of geometrical forms and unusual colors, a bug resting on a person, a graffiti in an abandoned building, or a person lost in her/his thought. This sometimes, drives me to work in series.

I am always fascinated by the dichotomy of the world! Hazy heat and reflections, lights being jealous of shadows, strong colors against a cloudless sky, chaos and serenity.

I like the architectural, the body of human nature, the landscapes that can be found in cities, people and nature alike. I have found myself attracted by multicultural and, multi societal consciousness.

My work, tender, eloquent, provocative and painful at times mirrors my “many lives” and my many foreign travels, as well as my view on cultural, social, and political issues.

Take the time to see me through.

God's Twilight | Acrylics on wood | D 25"
God’s Twilight | Acrylics on wood | D 25″

Early Antique Mortuary Mask | Mixed media | H 12" W 24" D 2"
Early Antique Mortuary Mask | Mixed media | H 12″ W 24″ D 2″

Chaos | Acrylics and paper on plywood | H 53" W 35" D 1"
Chaos | Acrylics and paper on plywood | H 53″ W 35″ D 1″

Blue Lips | Collage and acrylics on metal | D 13"
Blue Lips | Collage and acrylics on metal | D 13″

 

Featured Artist | Anindita Dasgupta

A self-taught artist, I make abstract, intuitive and impressionistic art. I create energy through my art, of real things but outside of the realm of realism and showing how I perceive that reality to be. I paint a lot of florals because flowers connect with my soul, occasionally working on landscapes and other subjects. I hope to spread happiness through my work. I am certain that they will bring positive energy for all who see and own them!

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Anindita Dasgupta | Dallas, TX
@anindita.art.etc

A self-taught artist, I make abstract, intuitive and impressionistic art. I create energy through my art, of real things but outside of the realm of realism and showing how I perceive that reality to be. I paint a lot of florals because flowers connect with my soul, occasionally working on landscapes and other subjects. I hope to spread happiness through my work. I am certain that they will bring positive energy for all who see and own them!

Spring Fling 7 | Digital Art | 16x16 print
Spring Fling 7 | Digital Art | 16×16 print

Spring Fling 8 | Digital Art | 16x16 print
Spring Fling 8 | Digital Art | 16×16 print

Spring Fling 9 | Digital Art | 16x16 print
Spring Fling 9 | Digital Art | 11×14 print

Featured Artist | Mj Tom

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Mj Tom | Athens, Greece
@losotros.mjtom

To Whom That May Concern.

European Visual Artist Mj Tom chooses not to share any personal information. Since 2003 he established the Visual Poetry | Urban Art Group LosOtros with his alter ego Andrea Nada. He lives between Berlin, Barcelona and Paris.

His work has been exhibited at London, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, Barcelona.

His current body of work includes mixed media, collage, sculture, installation, and digital printing. Irreverent and fleeting, able to define himself as a copy machine of art, sarcastic and deliberately anonymous, he questions almost every probable

fact. The veneer of normality, the history as written, the common way of understanding nature and oneself as a part of it.

As he remarks “I don’t want much to be known “about me”. I am not trying to be elusive as some people might say. I just think what is important is the artwork, not the artist. I want you to have my work on your …wall, not based on who I am, where I have studied or where I have exhibited my work. I don’t want to get between “You” and the “Artwork”. I want to live quietly behind it… and pass away sometime quietly…”

Adding that “We are low value with high purpose. We are dedicated to noneducational activities, self-indulgent thoughts, unfinished and incomplete actions. Our work is not easily classified or marketable. This protects us from analysis, judgment or criticism. We have no direction, motivation other than a cursed reflex to purge our anonymous mental overflows in a public forum and then run away from it and hide behind our cloak of concealment. Art is simply our lifestyle.”.

[Curriculum Vitae on My Own Words] or There is no Reality | Until You Create One.

Art is my way to conciliate with reality. In some cases, I can bring it closer to my standards. And psychoanalysis too. Both of them are hopeless. It is a try to put an order in the hectic world around and inside me. To value better what had happened and possibly what is happening, at least a part of it. It is a lost war. Before I can understand what had happened in reality, or at least what I perceive as reality, the latter flips and turns to something else. I ‘m a witness, an eye witness. I revise meticulously what it is

around me. I examine, select, collect, put in order emotions. Stating what is important and what is not, what could be regarded as beautiful, or ugly, what would be funny or sad. If I can’t change it, I can barely transform it, good enough in order to compromise with it. Sometimes the attempt is successful, sometimes it isn’t. I ‘m urban. I like nature but I feel comfortable only in the city. It is my battlefield. Especially, the afterhours, when everybody sleeps so I can walk quietly in the streets and hear the sounds. My paints they are made for me, but in reality they refer to others. It is an attempt; to speak enough for me but not in a verbal way. What is entitled inside the frame, presuppose my aesthetic viewpoint. But what they produce is beyond my control. I exist in both of them. It is a miracle, when it happens. Unfortunately isn‘t an everyday experience. Or, I believe so.

My Reality | Ιn Halftones.

My work is an exploration of paradoxes and contrasts which are torturous and utopian, wild and serene but definitely resilient.

As my reality is in halftones, I capture fragments of life often ignored or forgotten. My art echo’s the unease and mixes it with the uncomfortable reality of continuous transformations of the urban environment in which I live. Faces, pseudo familiar situations, characters belonging to various walks of life… they all inject emotions with such a warm identity to characterize the experience of

ordinary people, those people who would say and tell through the eyes their own existence. Ι represent ordinary people; those actors unaware of being protagonists of present days and to represent them in spite of a reality in half-tone that essentially results a kind of summary, which, in the end, is life! An arrested motion in time. In arresting motion there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality, so I don’t arrest motion in time. I make it. I love my subjects although I don’t know them. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never meat any of them or I don’t know them at all, yet I live through them, or I can’t live without them.

They constitute my curriculum vitae.

Memento Mori aka ad Verbum [?] v.9.21 | Mixed Media | 100 x 170 cm
Memento Mori aka ad Verbum [?] v.9.21 | Mixed Media | 100 x 170 cm
S… like Solveig aka What [?] If [?] or a New Grate v.6.24 | Mixed Media | 205 x 100 cm.
S… like Solveig aka What [?] If [?] or a New Grate v.6.24 | Mixed Media | 205 x 100 cm.
Memento Mori aka ad Verbum [?] v.11.13 | Mixed Media | 100 x 170 cm.
Memento Mori aka ad Verbum [?] v.11.13 | Mixed Media | 100 x 170 cm.
S… like Solveig aka What [?] If [?] or a New Grate v.7.13 | Mixed Media | 100 x 176 cm.
S… like Solveig aka What [?] If [?] or a New Grate v.7.13 | Mixed Media | 100 x 176 cm.