Tag: outsider art

Featured Artist – Sue Moerder

I grew up in an Art home with a Photographer Father, an Elementary School Art Teacher Mother, and Artistic Sister and Brother. Art was always a huge part of my life so going to the Art school where my parents met was probably meant to be. I studied Illustration at Philadelphia College of Art (when it was called that) and then got side tracked in Advertising when I graduated.

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Sue Moerder – Hammonton, NJ
Instagram

I grew up in an Art home with a Photographer Father, an Elementary School Art Teacher Mother, and Artistic Sister and Brother. Art was always a huge part of my life so going to the Art school where my parents met was probably meant to be. I studied Illustration at Philadelphia College of Art (when it was called that) and then got side tracked in Advertising when I graduated.

While I was in college and a few years after I exhibited my Soft-Sculpture in Galleries in Phila, New York, New Jersey, and Baltimore. Was published in the books “Outstanding American Illustrators” and “3-Dimensional Illustration” and magazines “Print Magazine” and “Baltimore Magazine”.

A weird sequence of events landed me in Tattooing for the past 16 years, with my own Tattoo Shop/Art Playground for last 7 of them.
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I love Tattooing but the Sculptor in me couldn’t be denied and I started sculpting again with skulls – I love taking skulls and assembling them with manmade objects that are old and discarded, but still beautiful in their own way. It’s like putting together a puzzle of shapes and textures – and giving new life to the dead and discarded.
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I’ve been told what to do with my talents most of my life, and it has definitely influenced my art – this is my own personal artistic voice – my sanity – my passion.

Still Born (Collaboration w/ Mari Bennett - the Mummy Baby) Medium Mixed Media Size 24"x32"x12"
Still Born (Collaboration w/ Mari Bennett – the Mummy Baby)
Mixed Media
24″x32″x12″
Fallen Angel Medium Mixed Media Size 68"x24"x24"
Fallen Angel
Mixed Media
68″x24″x24″
Bare Back Medium Mixed Media Size 28"x28"x11"
Bare Back
Mixed Media
28″x28″x11″
Mermaid Floor Lamp Medium Mixed Media Size 67"x12"x15"
Mermaid Floor Lamp
Mixed Media
67″x12″x15″

 

 

Featured Artist – Deveron Richard

Deveron Richard is an LA-based artist, primarily self taught and highly skilled in watercolor and pastel. Deveron has been creating work at the ECF Art Centers, a progressive art studio in Los Angeles, for over thirty-three years. His subject matter ranges from fantasy and sci-fi to landscapes and portraits, and always with a distinct attention to the smallest detail and brush stroke. Deveron creates otherworldly characters of hypersexualized animals that live in a color spectra or a battling space universe. With each piece along with a title Deveron includes a narrative, giving the viewer just a glimpse into the microcosms he creates. “I am an art student, always learning something new and practicing my technique. I get my ideas from my imagination. I ask God for a vision, for inspiration. I do my inspiration and I keep at it.” says Deveron about his art practice.

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Deveron Richard – San Pedro, CA
Instagram  #DeveronRichard

Deveron Richard is an LA-based artist, primarily self taught and highly skilled in watercolor and pastel. Deveron has been creating work at the ECF Art Centers, a progressive art studio in Los Angeles, for over thirty-three years. His subject matter ranges from fantasy and sci-fi to landscapes and portraits, and always with a distinct attention to the smallest detail and brush stroke. Deveron creates otherworldly characters of hypersexualized animals that live in a color spectra or a battling space universe. With each piece along with a title Deveron includes a narrative, giving the viewer just a glimpse into the microcosms he creates. “I am an art student, always learning something new and practicing my technique. I get my ideas from my imagination. I ask God for a vision, for inspiration. I do my inspiration and I keep at it.” says Deveron about his art practice.

It's Raining Milk Medium watercolor on paper Size 28.75in X 20.875in
It’s Raining Milk
watercolor on paper
28.75in X 20.875in
Bird of Ice Medium watercolor on paper Size 17in X 22.5in
Bird of Ice
watercolor on paper
17in X 22.5in
The Polar Bears in Aurora Medium watercolor on paper Size 22in X 16.25in
The Polar Bears in Aurora
watercolor on paper
22in X 16.25in
Spectra Knights : Battle for Birdraprime Medium watercolor on paper Size 19in X 25.5in
Spectra Knights : Battle for Birdraprime
watercolor on paper
19in X 25.5in

 

 

Featured Artist – Joyce Thornburg

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—

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Joyce Thornburg – Asheville, NC
Instagram

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.

ARTIST BIO
Working studio/gallery at Wedge Studios in The River Arts district Asheville, N.C. 2009-current

Member of the Circle Foundation for the Arts, London.

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
American Folk Art Gallery/ Asheville 2007-2009

Atelier Gallery /Asheville 2007-2010

Attic Gallery /Vicksburg, MS 2012 to current

Beverly Kaye online gallery/ 2015

Cherry Bounce/American Politics / William King Museum Abingdon, VA., September 2016-January 2017

Saatchi Art / Urban Edge, New Street Art collection 2016

MUSEUM AFFILIATIONS/COLLECTIONS:
Victor Keane collection at the Bethany Mission Gallery/ Philadelphia, PA.

Title Dance of Impermanence Medium Mixed Media on panel Size 36" x 48"

Dance of Impermanence
Mixed Media on panel
36″ x 48″
Title Sad Clown Medium Acrylic on Strand Board Size 18" x 24"

Sad Clown
Acrylic on Strand Board
18″ x 24″
Title Homage Medium Acrylic on Canvas Size 30" x 31"

Homage
Acrylic on Canvas
30″ x 31″
Title Jolly Good Fella Medium Mixed Media on Panel Size 12" x 12

Jolly Good Fella
Mixed Media on Panel
12″ x 12

Featured Artist – Sally Mandl

I am endlessly inspired by the natural world that surrounds me/is me. My drawings are portraits of you and me. My name is Sally Mandl and i was born and raised in Montreal (but ran away to the country as soon an i turned 25. Right angles aren’t my thing – surprise, surprise). Growing up i was always encouraged to be creative in any and every way possible. Both my parents and brother are artistically inclined and i really do feel like it’s in my blood. My veins are full of it.

My work is a depiction of how strange it is to be alive. We are all just vibrating sacs of fluid. Temporarily eternal fleshy temples living beside and within each other. Teeth and hair and fingernails floating through space and time.

What a world.

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Sally Mandl – Quebec, Canada
Instagram

I am endlessly inspired by the natural world that surrounds me/is me. My drawings are portraits of you and me. My name is Sally Mandl and i was born and raised in Montreal (but ran away to the country as soon an i turned 25. Right angles aren’t my thing – surprise, surprise). Growing up i was always encouraged to be creative in any and every way possible. Both my parents and brother are artistically inclined and i really do feel like it’s in my blood. My veins are full of it.

My work is a depiction of how strange it is to be alive. We are all just vibrating sacs of fluid. Temporarily eternal fleshy temples living beside and within each other. Teeth and hair and fingernails floating through space and time.

What a world.

Title Eclipse Medium Pen on paper Size 8.5x11

Eclipse
Pen on paper
8.5×11
Title Dehydrated Medium Pen on paper Size 8.5x11

Dehydrated
Pen on paper
8.5×11
Title Mother Medium Pen on paper Size 8.5x11

Mother
Pen on paper
8.5×11
Title Silver Tongue Medium Pen on paper Size 8.5x11

Silver Tongue
Pen on paper
8.5×11

 

Featured Artist – Cat Vaganay

My paintings are a critical response to the political and cultural issues crystallized through the social media anonymous human interactions. Beyond emoticons and slashing words, and through enigmatic appearances, my work puts a grotesque, loud, distorted, and caricatural emotional reaction on faces that never “face” each other.

Through the context of emails, texts, Instagram and Facebook posts, those imaginary faces hide behind bold, blunt, and aggressive tirades illustrating the fragmentation of human interactions. Jean Michel Basquiat, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell are my most significant influences when using percussive, and raw brushstrokes to build a snapshot of the emotional reactions to these exchanges.

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Cat Vaganay – Norwell, MA
Instagram

My paintings are a critical response to the political and cultural issues crystallized through the social media anonymous human interactions. Beyond emoticons and slashing words, and through enigmatic appearances, my work puts a grotesque, loud, distorted, and caricatural emotional reaction on faces that never “face” each other.

Through the context of emails, texts, Instagram and Facebook posts, those imaginary faces hide behind bold, blunt, and aggressive tirades illustrating the fragmentation of human interactions. Jean Michel Basquiat, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell are my most significant influences when using percussive, and raw brushstrokes to build a snapshot of the emotional reactions to these exchanges.

Title Untitled 3 Medium Mixed media Size 48in x 32.5in.

Untitled 3
Mixed Media
48in x 32.5in.
Title Untitled 2 Medium Mixed media Size 48in x 24in

Untitled 2
Mixed Media
48in x 24in
Title Untitled 16 Medium Acrylic Size 20in. X 20in.

Untitled 16
Acrylic
20in. X 20in.
Title Blue Medium Acrylic Size 51in. X 45in.

Blue
Acrylic
51in. X 45in.

 

 

Featured Artist – Elizabeth Hermann

Featured Artist – Elizabeth Hermann

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Elizabeth Hermann

Grafting and merging are boring. They happen in nature. Collisions are interesting. Explosions don’t happen so often in nature—they require a particularly human capability for catastrophe. E started broken, continues hungrily, and pursues art content relentlessly. E encourages explosions. E’s agenda considers art’s democratic potential, the intrinsic overarching umbrella nature of the medium, collaboration and writing as imperative components in the process, and graphic design’s trend toward the fine arts in the post-print interdisciplinary environment. E wants your discarded bits, the castoff trash of restless purchasing power. Artists regularly claim technologies that are no longer commercially viable, but E also repurposes cultural elements and physical junk. This includes cardboard boxes and entire carnivals. Instead of justifying how these themes fit together, E argues they cannot without some fire. As famed thinker Franz Ferdinand queried, “What’s wrong with a little destruction?” E’s sandbox includes Adobe Illustrator, Potassium Ferricyanide, and civil disobedience. E’s work spans succulents, melted plastic, and guerrilla projection. Instead of justifying how these coexist, E breaks the one off in the other. And yes, then adds fire.

Title Baby Bud Medium Sculpture Size 6" x 5" x 1'

Baby Bud
Sculpture
6″ x 5″ x 1′
Title Flaccid Gun (aka: Dicknozzle) Medium Scuplture Size 5" x 3.5" x 1"

Flaccid Gun (aka: Dicknozzle)
Scuplture
5″ x 3.5″ x 1″
Title Purslane Medium Sculpture Size 7" x 6" x 11"

Purslane
Sculpture
7″ x 6″ x 11″
Title Superman Medium Photography Size 12" x 12"

Superman
Photography
12″ x 12″

Featured Artist – William Tyler

My name is William Tyler and iam a Neo-Expressionist artist based in Toronto Ontario Canada.I make art to bring light .To get people to feel .To understand and to open their eyes and hearts .We live in a world that has many issues that get ignored or overseen, both social and human issues .I want to not only bring light to the issues being represented in my work but also allow those that are apart of those issues to know they arent alone and they have Allies and people who understand.

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William Tyler – Toronto, Canada

My name is William Tyler and iam a Neo-Expressionist artist based in Toronto Ontario Canada.I make art to bring light .To get people to feel .To understand and to open their eyes and hearts .We live in a world that has many issues that get ignored or overseen, both social and human issues .I want to not only bring light to the issues being represented in my work but also allow those that are apart of those issues to know they arent alone and they have Allies and people who understand.

Title Change of address Medium Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas Size 48x48

Change of Address
Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas
48×48
Title Bare Bones- A look into a sick mind *edition 2 Medium Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas Size 36x48

Bare Bones- A look into a sick mind *edition 2
Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas
36×48
Title More Weight-A look into a sick mind Medium Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas Size 36x48

More Weight-A look into a sick mind
Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas
36×48
Title These are the facts - A guide to a one sided system Medium Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas Size 36x48

These are the facts – A guide to a one sided system
Acrylic and oil stick on stretched canvas
36×48

Featured Artist – Jay Thomas II

Born and raised in New York City, Jay’s early art creations were greatly influenced by comic book artists such as John Romita, Steve Ditko, and Jim Steranko. During the late 70’s and early 80’s, Jay tried unsuccessfully to join the artistic ranks of both Marvel and DC comics. By 1982, he had become discouraged with the comic book style art that he had been doing, and proceeded to drastically change his style of art. This was the year that he plunged headlong into Pen & Ink Pointillism. Over the next few years, Jay was able to display his art in shows all throughout NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut, and became a member of various art groups such as: The Huntington Township Art League, The Long Island Black Artist Association, and The Harlem StreetGallery. Jay has since abandoned the Pen & Ink Pointillism style (Too costly and time consuming) and now focuses on creating art utilizing Colored Pencils and Ink. He currently resides in Elkridge, MD. with his two daughters, Taja and Kassandria.

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Jay Thomas II – Elkridge, MD
Instagram

Born and raised in New York City, Jay’s early art creations were greatly influenced by comic book artists such as John Romita, Steve Ditko, and Jim Steranko. During the late 70’s and early 80’s, Jay tried unsuccessfully to join the artistic ranks of both Marvel and DC comics. By 1982, he had become discouraged with the comic book style art that he had been doing, and proceeded to drastically change his style of art. This was the year that he plunged headlong into Pen & Ink Pointillism. Over the next few years, Jay was able to display his art in shows all throughout NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut, and became a member of various art groups such as: The Huntington Township Art League, The Long Island Black Artist Association, and The Harlem StreetGallery. Jay has since abandoned the Pen & Ink Pointillism style (Too costly and time consuming) and now focuses on creating art utilizing Colored Pencils and Ink. He currently resides in Elkridge, MD. with his two daughters, Taja and Kassandria.

Title "See" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 14x17
Title
“See”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
14×17
Title "Gestating Opinion Fountain" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 16x20
Title
“Gestating Opinion Fountain”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
16×20
Title "Critters In The Sky" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 16x20
Title
“Critters In The Sky”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
16×20
Title "Fractured Fragments" Medium Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper Size 16x20
Title
“Fractured Fragments”
Medium
Prismacolor Pencil art on bristol paper
Size
16×20

 

Featured Artist – Robert Gorchov

I’m a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for nearly 40 years. I’m interested in the process that creates a painting. Though 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 will 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 think too much about how it will end up.

I don’t know beforehand how a picture will turn out, and this is part of what makes painting interesting.

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Robert Gorchov – Philadelphia, PA

I’m a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for nearly 40 years. I’m interested in the process that creates a painting. Though 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 will 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 think too much about how it will end up.

I don’t know beforehand how a picture will turn out, and this is part of what makes painting interesting.

  • Title 'lady with bird' Medium acrylic, water color, ink,pencil on canvasette paper Size 16 x 20 inches
    ‘lady with bird’ – acrylic, water color, ink, pencil on canvasette paper – 16 x 20 inches
  • Title 'blue hand' Medium acrylic, ink, pencil on canvasette paper Size 18 x 21 inches
    ‘blue hand’ – acrylic, ink, pencil on canvasette paper – 18 x 21 inches
  • Title 'subject [defaced]' Medium acrylic, water color, pencil, ink on canvasette paper Size 16 x 20 inches
    ‘subject [defaced]’ – acrylic, water color, pencil, ink on canvasette paper – 16 x 20 inches
  • Title 'tiger' Medium acrylic on canvasette paper Size 16 x 20 inches
    ‘tiger’ – acrylic on canvasette paper – 16 x 20 inches