Featured Artist | RINA Taytu

RINA Taytu

Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan
https://www.instagram.com/rina_taytuart
@rina_taytuart

The theme of my works is coming from “To Live”. Most of them, if anything, are based on “sorrow” and “trouble” around us. Among these sorrow things, I shift my thought to feel a thanks. When I feel a thank, I see a small “dream” near in the future. It is “drawing” for me to make a form from a small dream.

ARIN | coloredpencil/ballpoint/acrylic | 420mm×590mm
ARIN | coloredpencil/ballpoint/acrylic | 420mm×590mm
NAKED ISLAND | coloredpencils/acrylics | 210mm×297mm
NAKED ISLAND | coloredpencils/acrylics | 210mm×297mm
OIRAN (lotus) | coloredpencils/acrylics/photoshop | 1000mm×820mm
OIRAN (lotus) | coloredpencils/acrylics/photoshop | 1000mm×820mm
OIRAN (rebirth) | coloredpencils | 300mm×300mm
OIRAN (rebirth) | coloredpencils | 300mm×300mm

Featured Artist | Zoltan Molnos

Zoltan Molnos

Odorheiu Secuiesc,Harghita county,Transylvania
http://www.molnos-zoltan.webnode.hu/

David Gilmour | oil on canvas | 30x40 cm
David Gilmour | oil on canvas | 30×40 cm
Magician | oil on canvas | 50x70 cm
Magician | oil on canvas | 50×70 cm
Maria | oil on canvas | 100x100cm
Maria | oil on canvas | 100x100cm
Tree Gracias  oil on canvas | 50x70 cm
Tree Gracias oil on canvas | 50×70 cm

FROM| Outsider Art Magazine Issue Five

FROM| Outsider Art Magazine Issue Five

Outsider Art Magazine Issue Five
Cover Artist: WILD TYPE | Waiting, Gouache, Ink on Paper, 11″ x 8.5″

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Well, it’s finally ready! Issue Five.

Thank you to every artist who submitted artwork for this giant issue of Outsider Art Magazine. Get your art ready because in January 2021 we will be releasing a new call for art. In addition to visual art we will be accepting poetry, short (very short) stories, and interesting articles about artists and their creative journey.

Artists in this Issue

WILD TYPE
Robert Gorchov
Todd Brugman
John McCabe
Robbie Gallows
Dalia Goldberg
Stefan Pruteanu
Magdalena Sikora
Samantha Sadik
Sophie Jacobs
Paulina Klimek-Cornett
Abbott Philson
Nickolai Dostanko
Matthew Clarke
Szilard Juhasz
MRSN
Pracheta Banerjee
Baili Wise
Jimmy Gockel
Nicholas Teetelli
Karen Glykys
Robert Frankel
Charles McDowell
Arne Søvik Larsen
Nicole Sullivan
Hannah Bouchard
Xavier Yarto
Mark Pol
Joyce Thornbug
Ian Hartley
Margarita Henriksson
Harrison Ernst
Homer Johnson
Tiantian Ma
Kayle A. Martinez
Rocio Garcia Montiel
Brooke Mathews
Brian Simons
Oliver Quinto
Romero Pasin
Thomas Sciacca
Dawn Rettew
Erik Aleksiewicz
NPrima/Natalia Proskuriakova
Jesus Diaz
Noah Velez
Andrew Stackpole
Gwen Hallford
Barbara Redondo
Anastasiia Kruglova
Jack Oliver
Ken Berman
Monica Tiulescu
Kitty Taylor
Dio D’Brutto
Lisa Castel

Featured Artist | Nicole Sullivan

Being born in Truth or Consequences has shaped my outlook on life to be a black and white Rube Goldberg machine. I have always studied and been drawn to the Truth.

My work has focused on human struggles with societal pitfalls induced by the conception of morality, and the enforced standards we try and fail to uphold ourselves. Growing up poverty-stricken and at the hands of extreme child abuse, I feel an urgency in addressing these issues and thus issues of morality before true societal progress can be achieved. I believe that what are referred to as the Seven Deadly Sins along with Karma will define the trials and tribulations a person will interact with in their lifetime, and the demons they will struggle with along that path.

My intentions are to spread the word about the struggles within each of us to remain human at all times, and at times, at all cost. Is it okay to help those who admit struggle? Can we be judgmental without being unfair? I want the viewer to understand truths within themselves through my art, to progress and have a life free of burden. I want the viewer to achieve a visual nirvana and ascend to their further purpose.

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Nicole Sullivan | Las Cruces, NM
@thestarsandgod

Being born in Truth or Consequences has shaped my outlook on life to be a black and white Rube Goldberg machine. I have always studied and been drawn to the Truth.

My work has focused on human struggles with societal pitfalls induced by the conception of morality, and the enforced standards we try and fail to uphold ourselves. Growing up poverty-stricken and at the hands of extreme child abuse, I feel an urgency in addressing these issues and thus issues of morality before true societal progress can be achieved. I believe that what are referred to as the Seven Deadly Sins along with Karma will define the trials and tribulations a person will interact with in their lifetime, and the demons they will struggle with along that path.

My intentions are to spread the word about the struggles within each of us to remain human at all times, and at times, at all cost. Is it okay to help those who admit struggle? Can we be judgmental without being unfair? I want the viewer to understand truths within themselves through my art, to progress and have a life free of burden. I want the viewer to achieve a visual nirvana and ascend to their further purpose.

my socks | acrylic on canvas | 34"x61"
my socks | acrylic on canvas | 34″x61″
 filth | acrylic on canvas | 18"x21.5"
filth | acrylic on canvas | 18″x21.5″
This is What Happens When You're Away | acrylic on canvas | 20"x20″
This is What Happens When You’re Away | acrylic on canvas | 20″x20″
Daddy's Fleshlight | acrylic on canvas | 61"x54.5"
Daddy’s Fleshlight | acrylic on canvas | 61″x54.5″

 

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 | 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 | 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 – 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

Featured Artist – Goda Mačėnaitė

i was born to be a painter therefore i am one. when i paint i feel invincible. i feel life flowing through me. i feel a like a fraud and i love myself. i feel horrible, great and delusional all at the same time. its wonderful.
with all that in mind i work as a programmer during the day. oh life, you cruel, blind son of a bitch.
i dream of the day when i will be able to wake up and go my own, separate way.
but then i wake up, look through the window to the other windows in front of me, listen to the birds chirping, eat my buckwheats and go on with my life.

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Featured Artist

Goda Mačėnaitė – Vilnius, Lithuania

 

i was born to be a painter therefore i am one. when i paint i feel invincible. i feel life flowing through me. i feel a like a fraud and i love myself. i feel horrible, great and delusional all at the same time. its wonderful.
with all that in mind i work as a programmer during the day. oh life, you cruel, blind son of a bitch.
i dream of the day when i will be able to wake up and go my own, separate way.
but then i wake up, look through the window to the other windows in front of me, listen to the birds chirping, eat my buckwheats and go on with my life. kicking every trashcan that i can and drawing on every surface that i’m able to find. feeling happy just by thinking about all these things, about the future and stuff, going by the places where people study art. this is my home now. i know i’m not one of them, but
“I’ll sleep by your door, lay my life on the line
You probably don’t know but I’m gonna make you mine”
to quote Bob Dylan.
in conclusion. i know what i am. and now, i guess, you do too. you can see me walking down the street, wearing the same damn thing every day. white shirts. blue jeans. talking about art and bob dylan with some randos and fellow programmers who’ll listen. you can imagine me laying in my bed at night anxious about my future, feeling as if everyone hates me just because i still haven’t found my place under the sun, quoting Allen Ginsberg under my nose and eating buckwheats. buckwheats. always buckwheats.
i hope thats enough. i hope i can consider you my friend now.

Socialist Street Medium oil on canvas Size 70cmx80cm
Socialist Street
oil on canvas
70cmx80cm

Desolation Row Medium oil on canvas Size 80cmx70cm
Desolation Row
oil on canvas
80cmx70cm

Some lady left without her bagel. Do you want it? Medium oil on canvas Size 70cmx80cm
Some lady left without her bagel. Do you want it?
oil on canvas
70cmx80cm

Someday Baby Medium oil on canvas Size 70cmx80cm
Someday Baby
oil on canvas
70cmx80cm