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 | Susan Spangenberg

Susan Spangenberg

Jackson Heights, NY
http://susanspangenberg.com
@straitjacketsusan

Coming from a severely dysfunctional family which led to group homes and institutionalization in her teenage years, Susan Spangenberg cut her outsider artist teeth at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center’s renown ‘Living Museum’ art rehabilitation program. She was on the vanguard of the ‘Girl Interrupted’ female asylum artist wave that has in twenty years become the new normal, yet Susan has maintained the raw essence of that genre imbued with a twenty-first century sensibility.

Girl In Restraints Looking Through The Seclusion Room Window<br>Girl In Restraints Looking Throughpsychiatric hospital gown, leather, pencil, marker, metal on canvas 2019 (hand sewn) <br>8" x 10"
Girl In Restraints Looking Through The Seclusion Room Window
Girl In Restraints Looking Throughpsychiatric hospital gown, leather, pencil, marker, metal on canvas 2019 (hand sewn)
8″ x 10″
Octochrist pencil, text, marker, psychiatric hospital gown, fabric, buttons (hand sewn) on canvas 12" x 16"
Octochrist
pencil, text, marker, psychiatric hospital gown, fabric, buttons (hand sewn) on canvas
12″ x 16″
Girl In Restraints Visits The Octopi <br>Girl In Restraiacrylic, marker, psychiatric hospital gown, fabric, buttons on unstretched canvas 2021 (hand sewn) <br>72" x 20"
Girl In Restraints Visits The Octopi
Girl In Restraiacrylic, marker, psychiatric hospital gown, fabric, buttons on unstretched canvas 2021 (hand sewn)
72″ x 20″
Girl In A Straitjacket pencil, marker, fabric on canvas (hand sewn) 8" x 10"
Girl In A Straitjacket
pencil, marker, fabric on canvas (hand sewn)
8″ x 10″

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 | 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

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″

 

Outsider Art Magazine | Issue Three is Here!!!

Finally!!! … Outsider Art Magazine Issue Three is now available for free downloads and not free print purchases.

Congratulations to Bill Skrips whose art has landed on the cover of issue three.

Thank you to every artist who submitted their art and to those who made the cut for issue three, We are now accepting free art submissions for issue four.

Outsider Art Magazine Issue Three
Cover Art | The Sylph | Mixed Media | 21″ x 15″ 8″

Cover Artist
Bill Skrips | Cerrillos, NM
http://www.billskrips.com
@billskrips

 

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