Featured Artist | Marcela Conomos

Marcela Conomos

Hong Kong
https://www.instagram.com/artbymarcela/
@artbymarcela

Bio:

Marcela is a self-taught intuitive artist born in Sydney, Australia. She is currently based in Hong Kong.

Her earliest creative explorations were in dance, drama, singing and visual arts. In childhood and adolescence, she found an escape in art and a place where she could express herself without words.

After high school, she completed a Law Degree at the University of Technology Sydney, which saw her work in various jobs from legal to publishing related jobs.

She felt herself pulled back into the arts during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The turmoil brought about by the pandemic, led her to connect more deeply artistically and spiritually. Creating art felt therapeutic and her art quickly became deeply connected to her spiritual practice.

Marcela’s work is based on intuition, mindfulness and vibrational energies. Her works revolve around exploring the realms of the unknown and altered states of consciousness. Rainbows are often found in her works, as a symbol of the rainbow bridge.

Through predominately ink, watercolour and hand drawn digital art, her works represent her way of translating the unseen energies she experiences into something more tangible for others to see.

She hopes her art sparks discussions about other-worldly topics that transcend current human understanding.

——-

Artist Statement:

I try to capture the invisible and make it visible.

My work is based on intuition, mindfulness and vibrational energies.

My artworks are often created subconsciously from a prayerful meditative place, only once they are finished do I come to understand what they are expressing.

In part through automatic drawing and also through accessing my intuition, I challenge others to see beyond current human understanding by diagramming elements of the immaterial world and exploring altered states of consciousness. To have people look past the 5 senses, that is my goal and inspiration.

Felicity | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16" x 20"
Felicity | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16″ x 20″
By Your Side | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16" x 20"
By Your Side | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16″ x 20″
A Face In The Crowd | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16" x 20"
A Face In The Crowd | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 16″ x 20″
Better Together | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 18" x 24"
Better Together | Hand Drawn Digital Art | 18″ x 24″

 

Featured Artist | Binna Kim

Binna Kim

Long Island City, NY
https://www.binnakimart.com
@binnnaart

In Binna Kim’s artwork, she aims to present a stimulating mixture of nature and a view from her vivid imagination.

Whether in colorful abstract works or visual interpretation of nature, the works demonstrate keen attention to the smallest detail in order to emphasize the depth of expression and emotive beauty of nature. This combination helps bring the audience to a different world, a stage for viewing scenery in an emotionally evocative way. While viewing the works, the artist’s visual expression and interpretation by the audience merge and go hand in hand to evoke a memory, a passion, or a feeling unique to each of us.

Emotions-19 Series focuses on positive emotions that we might have forgotten for a while due to Covid-19 pandemic, such as love, joy, comfort and gratitude.

Binna Kim is a self-taught artist with a few different yet special career backgrounds. She is based in New York as an artist, floral designer and window display designer. Binna’s childhood was spent on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula, against the backdrop of mountains and ocean that first inspired her art. Natural forms have remained a central theme in her work, and as her art career flourished she developed an interest in floral design and plant-based installations. Binna’s arrangements have graced vitrines at flagship locations of Beretta, Madison Avenue Gallery and Oxxford Clothes, and at renowned boutiques across New York City.

Apex No.1 - Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks, Pastels & Pens on paper | 16 x 16 inches
Apex No.1 – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks, Pastels & Pens on paper | 16 x 16 inches
Apex No.2 - Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks, Pastels & Pens on paper | 16 x 16 inches
Apex No.2 – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks, Pastels & Pens on paper | 16 x 16 inches
Metaphysical Joy No.1 - Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks & Pastels on paper | 24 x 18 inches
Metaphysical Joy No.1 – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks & Pastels on paper | 24 x 18 inches
Tranquil Joy - Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks & Pastels on paper | 24 x 18 inches
Tranquil Joy – Emotions-19 Series | Acrylic inks & Pastels on paper | 24 x 18 inches

 

FROM | Outsider Art Magazine | Issue Six

Issue Six is now available digitally for free or $25 for a printed version.

Outsidr Art Magazine Issue Six

Artists in issue six

Robert Gorchov *Cover Artist
Robert Frankel
Kevin Kemp
Dio D’Brutto
Valentina Fedoseeva
Ernest Compta
Matthew Clarke
RINA Taytu
Nicklas Farrantello
Sven Froekjaer-Jensen
Mitchell Pluto
Richard Reynolds
Gale Rothstein
Thelma Van Rensburg
Jennifer Levine
Susan Spangenberg
Emmanuel Laveau
Samia Farah
Selkie Quan
Bux Dhyne
Bill Skrips
Poete Maudit
Christy Carter
BILL _L47
Sophie Jacobs
Oshi Artist
Michael Chomick
David Sheskin
William Francis
Richard Green
Hermine Harman

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 | Richard Green

Richard Green

Richmond, IN
http://www.spindlepunk.com

I spend a lot of time watching paint dry which is fine because I consider myself to be, first and foremost, a painter. Experiments in drawing led me to tear paper and arrange found objects, lifting me off the paint surface into collage and assemblage. The arrival of furniture ‘shards’ seemed a natural extension of this process and allowed me to step outside the bounds of academic art. Recovered from alleys and yard sales, the chairs, tables and dressers introduce a human element to, otherwise, complex gestures. They represent a human scale with human references: arms, feet, legs, backs, seats and so on. An anthropomorphic whisper keens behind the work.

During a year spent teaching in Japan, I visited ancient Kyoto several times and loved the wooden artifacts of rice cultivation–splintered and gray–honored in retirement, placed around the wood-and-paper houses, sometimes mounted on the exterior as decoration. The ‘Kyoto’ series with its layered wooden designs owes its origins to this memory. ‘Debris Fields’ differ in that they are created from just one fractured furniture piece, making them bolder, simpler, and more colorful.

. . . which brings us back to the paint. Except for the base coat and a rare touch with a brush, the paint is poured and sprayed; it flows and drools and cracks and oozes. You’d think it would add a chaotic element. Quite the contrary, the paint imposes order while charging the pieces chromatically and emotionally; it creates harmonies or contrasts that give depth to the human gestures.

Debris Field #12 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic | 60" x 35" x 8"
Debris Field #12 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic | 60″ x 35″ x 8″
Debris Field #10 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic | 51" x 36" x 10"
Debris Field #10 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic | 51″ x 36″ x 10″
Kyoto #10 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic on pegboard | 36" x 36" x 3"
Kyoto #10 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic on pegboard | 36″ x 36″ x 3″
Kyoto #8 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic on pegboard | 72" x 27" x 5"
Kyoto #8 | furniture shards, acrylic/polycrylic on pegboard | 72″ x 27″ x 5″

Featured Artist | Robert Frankel

As a self taught artist I never learned the “proper” way to make art. My paintings are often inspired by mundane things such as looking at patterns of cracks on a sidewalk or the colors of sprinkles on a donut. My style ranges from geometric art to naive art. I am always looking to find my “inner child” while painting.

Robert Frankel

Wilmette, IL
robertfrankelart.com
@robertfrankelart

As a self taught artist I never learned the “proper” way to make art. My paintings are often inspired by mundane things such as looking at patterns of cracks on a sidewalk or the colors of sprinkles on a donut. My style ranges from geometric art to naive art. I am always looking to find my “inner child” while painting.

I have exhibited in a number of galleries which include Van Der Plas Gallery, 440 Gallery, SITE Gallery, and Greenpoint Gallery in New York City, La Galleria Pall Mall in London and Chie Gallery in Milan Italy. I have also exhibited in Saatchi-The other Art Fair in Chicago and will be exhibiting at the Saatchi fair later this Spring in Los Angeles.

Chicago Boogie | Acrylic on Canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5
Chicago Boogie | Acrylic on Canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5
Dancing Raindrops #2 | Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5
Dancing Raindrops #2 | Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5
Colors and Curves | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5
Colors and Curves | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5
Adventures in Geometry #4 | Acrylic on canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5
Adventures in Geometry #4 | Acrylic on canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5

 

Featured Artist | Robert Frankel

Robert Frankel

Wilmette, IL
robertfrankelart.com
@robertfrankelart

I like to create energy and motion by contrasting bright colors, heavy brushstrokes, and unusual shapes and textures.

Many people who view my work tell me it makes them happy. My lack of formal art training has enabled me to think and paint “out of the box” in regards to composition, textures, and colors.

I have been in a number of national and international exhibitions which include Van Der Plas Gallery, SITE Gallery, 440 Gallery, and Greenfield Gallery in NYC, La Galleria Pall Mall in London, and Chie Gallery in Milan Italy. I have exhibited at Saatchgi-The Other Art Fair in Chicago and will be exhibiting in the Saatchi -Los Angeles exhibition in Spring of this year. In 2019 I was one of twenty finalists for the Art Takes Manhattan Competition.

Geschmier #5 | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5 (inches)
Geschmier #5 | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5 (inches)
Geschmier #1 | Acrylic on canvas | 12 x 9 x .5
Geschmier #1 | Acrylic on canvas | 12 x 9 x .5
Big Bang | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
Big Bang | Acrylic on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
Geschmier #7 | Acrylic on canvas | 12 x 9 x .5 (inches)
Geschmier #7 | Acrylic on canvas | 12 x 9 x .5 (inches)

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″

FREE Digital Version
$30 Print

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.

Outsider Art Magazine

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.

Outsider Art Magazine

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″